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Morris Rosenfeld
… Alter in 1862 in Stare Boksze, in Suwałki County, part of Russian Poland. Morris came from a family of fishermen. He … was connected with the editorial staff of several leading Jewish newspapers. In 1904 he started publishing a weekly … died in 1923, in New York City. Source: The Jewish Encyclopedia . … Yiddish poet … 0 … Yiddish songs … Hebrew …
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 … volumes were intended to be the first of an encompassing Encyclopedia of Hassidism printed by “Netzah – Traditional …
Eliakum Zunser
… of poverty and intolerable and vicious harassment by the Russians, he wandered from city to city and at one time was … versions. Its theme was the joy of returning to plow the Jewish earth in the Holy Land. Zunser himself hoped to … Accessed online March, 1 2009. Nulman, Macy. Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music , New York: McGraw-Hill Book …
Jacob Bachman
… with Rubinstein, who was considered the 'westerner of Russian music,'* Bachmann choose a career in cantorate. He … between Joshua Abrass and Jacob Bachman, in which the Jewish community in Odessa was divided into two camps: the … Schirath Jacob . Moscow: P. Jurgenson, 1884. Sources: Encyclopedia Judaica ; Minkowski, Pinchas. “Misefer …
Moshe Rudinow
… of Odessa and Kherson. While working there, he translated Russian songs into Hebrew and Yiddish, and performed the music of Jewish composers such as Engel , Saminsky , and Milner . Due … at Temple Sinai in Oakland. Sources: ' Rudinow, Moshe.' Encyclopedia Judaica . Ed. Michael Berenbaum and Fred …
Max Weinreich
… Max Weinreich was a Russian Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics … 1945, pp. 13. Full biography at The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe . … Yiddish linguist …
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 … in New York. Sources: Yiddishmusic site (in Russian) Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel , vol. 3 …
Shmuel Zanvel Pipe
… became an enthusiastic collector for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in Vilna, submitting Yiddish folktales … mature and dispassionate scholars of East European Jewish studies. In 1930 he was among the collectors who … copious annotations, notes, and indices. Source: The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. … Yiddish folklorist …
Joseph Papernikoff
… was born in the late 1990s (1897 or 1899) in the Russian city of Warsaw, Poland. He was the son of Malka nee … which saw modern Yiddish literature as a central part of Jewish identity. Papernikoff was active in the cultural life … Wikipedia (In Hebrew), and ' Yosef Papernikov ' from the Encyclopedia o f the Founders and Builders of Israel (in …
Amnon Shiloah
… Born in Lanus, Argentina in 1928 to a family of Jewish immigrants from Syria, Shiloah returned with his … Pe’amim , and Yuval , as well as in the major music encyclopedias, such as the Encyclopedia Judaica (1971 and … in five languages (Arabic, English, French, Hebrew and Russian), including twenty books, edited works, recordings, …