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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 …