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Meir Shimon Geshuri
… 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … a relatively new Jewish settlement in Silesia] next to the Prussian border during [the Rebbe’s] journeys to the springs … Belarus, and his exposure to the Haskalah and modern German culture that spread to the new Jewish settlements of …
Abraham Goldfaden
… father took advantage of a new law mandating that Jewish students attending public school would be except from … was in circulation for approximately six months before the Russian government banned its continued publication. … five years of his life involved in promoting the growing culture of Yiddish literature and theater. Click here to …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… all of his career. He is most closely associated with the Jewish community of Dubno (today in western Ukraine), but … became an acclaimed exponent of Jewish Eastern European culture and tradition. Christians as well as Jews responded … his virtuosity won him the support and admiration of Russian government officials. His audience extended across …
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 …
Israel Adler
… Institut de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and musical studies. During his thirteen-year sojourn … characters, a visual icon symbolically linking Hebrew culture to the mainstream of early Western music history at … was directed during the Soviet period by the distinguished Russian Jewish musicologist Moise Beregovski. Located at the …
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 …
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 … 1 … 288 … Yale …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… of digital resources have enhanced the study of the Jewish liturgy helping us to make more accurate assessments … Mahzor at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy in St. Petersburg D 101 (F 69720) includes … against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises …
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 …
Brakha Tzefira
… singer and as a choir conductor on various occasions. The Russian director Alexander Diki saw her in one of Hakumkum's … Tzefira knew from her childhood including Sephardic songs, Jewish songs from Yemen, Persia, and Bukhara, as well as … as Jews in Europe, and the will to take pride in their culture. However, it was also external pressure, coming from …