… , immigrated to the U.S. in 1920. Achieved high acclaim in Russia and the U.S. as a clarinetist. Established ensembles which were dedicated to Jewish music both in Russia and in the U.S. Arranged many Jewish compositions for …

… Born in Dagdo, Russia. Officiated as cantor in Russia, the U.S. and South Africa.  Chagy published a book …

… Born in Byten, Russia, acquired his first musical knowledge from home and …

… was born January 1, 1893, in Shpole (Kiev province of the Russian Empire, now Ukraine). His father, Menachem Mendel … Berlin. In 1917 he began writing about music for various Russian-language periodicals in Kiev and later switched to … Yiddish daily newspaper Di naye tsayt (The new times) in Russian, and someone on the editorial board would translate …

… weddings. His parents immigrants to America from Northern Russia. From his parents, Ray inhererited a love of Eastern European Jewish music from Russia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. Ray plays …

… Warsaw, Poland. During World War I, his family emigrated to Russia, remaining until 1917, when they returned to Warsaw. …

… Max Weinreich was a Russian Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics … … Yiddish linguist … Weinraich … Yiddish … Languages … Russia … Max Weinreich … Max Weinreich … biography …

… brother-in-law, who came to visit us, but had to stop in Prussia, because he had no legal right to enter Russia, we journeyed there to see him.  While in Memel (then Prussia), the idea came to me to go to Koenigsberh, to Edward …

… Aaron Lebedeff was born in Gomel, Russia in 1873. As a young adult, he often appeared in … Vera Lubow and joined the Avrom Fishzohn troupe. During the Russian Revolution, he gave concerts for the American Red … the provincial villages and towns of Lithuania, Poland, Russia proper, and Romania. This fondness for Old World …

… was in circulation for approximately six months before the Russian government banned its continued publication.  … By 1880, his troupe was touring extensively throughout Russia, which increased his recognition as well as the … theater continued to grow in scope until 1883 when the Russian government banned performances in Yiddish. As a …

…   Abraham Dunajewski was born in Russia. He wrote the book Israelitische Tempel Compositionen …

… work at the Ohab Zedek Synagogue in New York , returning to Russia to take a position of chief hazzan at the Great …