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«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, the composer Solomon Rosowsky published a … Conservatory? Because it is the only school in the Russian Empire with a quota for non-Jewish students.” [2] … creative tension at the root of modern Russian-Jewish culture as a whole: the conflict between Russian imperial …

The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire
… 'No image of prerevolutionary Russian Jewish life is more iconic than the fiddler on the roof. But … new perspective on the emergence of Russian Jewish culture.' (from the book cover) … 85 … 85 … 1 … 34920 … 288 …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… 720 … In honor of May Day and the tradition of Jewish political radicalism in late nineteenth-century … Lita un Poilin, der yiddisher arbeter Bund,” (long live the Russian, Lithuanian, and Polish Jewish labor Bund). This … 2006. “Introduction: An-sky and the Guises of Modern Jewish Culture.” In The Worlds of S.An-sky: A Russian Jewish …

Alexander Krein's Kaddish, op.23,manuscript by the Soviet Jewish coposer, lost since the Nazi era.
… Aleksander Krejn (1883-1951), a founder of the Jewish national school in Russia, wrote “Kaddish” (1921-22)in memory of his parents, by setting a Russian poem by his friend Aleksander Orsanin to what he … artificial form. A brief survey of the consequences of Russian cultural politics for Jewish music after the Russian …
Image Before My Eyes
… by Joshua Waletzky This film discusses the history and culture of Polish Jews before the holocaust. It tells of the … war as well as a song about the prison camp Jablonna where Jewish Polish soldiers who were accused of treason on the Russian front were sent. … 9 … 34220 … YIVO Institute for …
James Loeffler
… (2006), Dissertation: 'The Most Musical Nation: Jews, Culture and Nationalism in the Late Russian Empire'; M.A. Columbia University (2000); … (1996); Founding Director, Vice-academic co-chair, Jewish Music Forum of the American Society for Jewish Music …

Society for Jewish Folk Music
… Voice and Jews In the spring of 1897, on the eve of the Russian Orthodox Easter, two Russian musicians met in an … Borodin and Moussorgsky – was introduced to the Russian Jewish composer and music critic Joel Engel . Stasov … for abandoning his own heritage for the Slavic culture of Russian intellectuals. “Where is your national …
Herman Svet
… was born January 1, 1893, in Shpole (Kiev province of the Russian Empire, now Ukraine). His father, Menachem Mendel … Berlin, which in those years was a city of refuge for many Jewish intellectuals who were fleeing Soviet Russia. Svet … Russian Jews in Music (1960), J ews in Russian Musical Culture in the Soviet Period (1968), Jewish Theater in …
Platon Brounoff
… Founded and conducted the Poale Tsion Choir, the first Jewish secular choir in America. Collected over 300 Jewish folk songs, some of which he arranged for his choir. … Passport to Jewish Music: its History, Traditions and Culture. Additional biographical items about Brounoff can be …

From Shtetl to Swing
… and many others from the first and second generation of Jewish immigrants, combined their Jewish heritage with the African-American Jazz style, and …