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My Path to Jewish Music
… qualities: the music of the first is Czech, the second Polish, and the third Russian. The effect of these …
Edith Gerson-Kiwi in Tehran (1961): Documents from a Revealing Journey
… Doriel replied, "Are Jews? For example, if you take a Polish Jew (especially a Galician like Spira is!), how can …
Eliezer Goldberg, alias Leyzerke Kremenitser
… Eliezer Goldberg was born in Vyshnivets (Polish: Wiśniowiec, Ukrainian: Вишнівець) in Volhynia, then … Empire. He received a religious education in Kremenets (Polish: Krzemieniec, Ukrainian: Кременець; hence his surname …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… with both internal traditions and external influences—from Polish and Russian elites, as well as from Ukrainian peasant … eastern Europe’s Hasidim into two camps: Russian and Polish. The centuries-long cultural, economic, and political … of three Yiddish dialects (Lithuanian Yiddish in the North, Polish and Ukrainian Yiddish in the South), intensified, …
Léibele Schwartz
… orthodox Great Temple on Paso Street , next to another Polish-born musician who immigrated to Argentine, hazzan … Max Perlman , Perlman’s wife Guita Galina and the renowned Polish-born comedians Dzigan and Shumakher ( Shimen or … as ‘Salahti’ (from the prayer ‘Omnam ken,’ according to the Polish liturgical tradition) and ‘Labrit habet’ (from the …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… how to read. Later I found out, that they were [tunes of] Polish folksongs or Hussar [cavalry] marches. The local as …
Esther Rokhl Kaminska
… Esther Rachel Kamińska was a Polish Jewish actress. She began her professional career as …
Moshe Preis
… far, and wide, since 1933. Following studies with a Polish voice professor, at age 19, he was offered the major …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… The cameraman who filmed the wedding-dance sequence in the Polish town of Kazimierz Dolny (nad Wisa) for Yidl mitn …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… tune (seven variants) preferred by the communities of the “Polish rite” (East of the Elbe and Moldau river) (see image … in agreement in detail. Four forms [of the melody], two Polish and two German, are presented by [Abraham] Baer … [sic]), Italian, German (that used by Marcello), and Polish—are given in the accompanying transcription [see …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… with the Torah Scrolls on Simhat Torah at the court of the Polish Hassidic dynasty of Kozhnitz (Yiddish name of the …
Vingerka (LKT)
… d’Espagne , Vingerka , Waltz , forms of popular Russian, Polish, and Rumanian dances.” EncyJud 1971, p. 1266 . “ …