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Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… virtually all Jews of Kutno perished in Chelmno: the first Nazi death camp of the “final solution of the Jewish …
Joseph Achron
… knew from his previous sojourn in Berlin and who had fled Nazi Germany. Most importantly, Achron became friendly with …
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… in Holland in the 17 th century and quickly founded an Ashkenazi community that became the largest Jewish community in … members, most of them—like most of the members of the Ashkenazi community—living in the outskirts of the city. The … past 340 years; it even avoided serious damage during the Nazi invasion. The Synagogue's Architecture and its Interior …

Society for Jewish Folk Music
… composer and choir director. In 1935 he fled the Nazis and returned to Palestine. In Palestine, and later in …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Karnes discusses Melngailis’s views during the Nazi occupation of the Baltic States. He quotes Melngailis’s … Jewish cowboys (Gottlieb 2004, 64). Also Yemenite-Ashkenazi intermarriages in Israel during the 1930s and through … system of accentuation served the interlocutors—the Ashkenazi system, where the accent most often falls on the …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac, … the great significance of the ‘Akedah narrative in Ashkenazi culture, as expressed through the poems that were sung … Jews throughout the ages (Sabar 2009, 9–27). In Jewish Ashkenazi Culture The Binding of Isaac maintained a key role …