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Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… , Idelsohn projected into this text his own vision of Jewish history and destiny as well as his take on prophecy … of modern Jewish identity. The internal politics of the Russian Empire towards its Jewish population shuttered down … his own self-understanding as a would-be prophet of Hebrew culture. According to Idelsohn, something sparked in the …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … far beyond this constricting narrative to recover Jewish culture, economics, politics, and society. Yet something of … with her father: “Shoshana’s love for dancing the horah and Russian kozatskas [read: kozachoks ] always remained with …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one … in a town called Felixburg which was renamed Kurland by the Russians. [2] Yiska's dad's dad was Azriel Idelsohn. He was … variant. Although, Libau was a modern city with German culture, my father picked for me a Lithuanian teacher in a …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… those areas of Ukraine (then part of Poland and later the Russian Empire). By the nineteenth century, it had become a … and Russian elites, as well as from Ukrainian peasant culture. A close examination of these reference points … as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is …