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Yetta Zwerling

… the 1930s and 1940s. Born on 25 December 1894 in Kohliev, near Lemberg, Eastern Galicia. Her father was an employee in a fruit …

Eliakum Zunser

… Eastern European poet and singer. He is known for his songs … Zunser was probably derived from Zunse (a small village near Vilna, Lithuania), where his ancestors lived prior to …

Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan

… He was apprenticed at the age of nine to an itinerant Eastern European cantor, and maintained this lifestyle throughout nearly all of his career. He is most closely associated with … musicologists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Nearly a century ago, Aron Friedmann, the chief cantor of …

Ezra Aharon ("Azuri")

… to his many devout listeners among Mizrahi communities (nearing 50% of the Jewish population), many leading … on Esther Warkov’s Music for Peace in the Middle East YouTube channel: Ah Ya Nass al Hawa Law Hakam … by Esther Warkov. Hirshberg, Jehoash. “ Performers Between East and West – Ideology and Reality in the Yishuv .” In …

Karel Salmon

… that attempted to blend the Western-European style with near-Eastern, Mediterranean, and Jewish folklore. Salmon often …

Shmuel Zanvel Pipe

… efforts to develop mature and dispassionate scholars of East European Jewish studies. In 1930 he was among the … World War II and was killed in 1943 by the Nazis in Zasław, near Przemyśl, Galicia. In 1971 Dov Noy and Meir Noy edited … and indices. Source: The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. … Yiddish folklorist … Folklore … Yiddish …