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Leo Wiener
… Leo Wiener was born in Bialystok, Russian Empire in 1862. He was an American historian, … linguist, author and translator. Wiener lectured on Slavic cultures at Harvard University and became the first American … Intellectual Assimilation. Yale University Press, 1991. … Russian- American historian, linguist, author and translator …
«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 …
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 …
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 …
Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… melody to the same text is performed by Avraham Kanai, a Jewish Karaite from Kazakhstan. The third melody originated … are principles that have been anchored in Karaite culture for generations, and remain to this day. Today, the … as well as rhyme schemes that are characteristic of Russian and Polish songs. It is difficult to ascertain the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …