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Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… European landscape: Hasidic tish-nigunim. Nigunim (Yiddish nign , from the Hebrew niggun —melody) are chants, … areas were notated and audio-recorded. [1] Tish-nigunim (Yiddish: table-melodies) comprise one of the most … Israeli one, in which Arabic and Turkish tunes, new Yiddish theater melodies, Hebrew quasi-Hasidic songs, and old …
Jacob Ben-Ami
… a meeting with Peretz Hirshbein led to founding the first Yiddish Dramatic Theatre, which Ben-Ami both acted and … and direction by Emanuel Reicher . Known as "The New Yiddish Theatre" in Yiddish, it featured works by Hirshbein, … "J acob Ben‐Ami, Actor, Dies at 86; A Founder of Jewish Art Theater ." The New York Times , July 23, 1977. "Jacob …
Léibele Schwartz
… at the Teatro Soleil in the Abasto quarter, one of the four theaters that presented Yiddish musicals and vaudevilles during the Golder Era of Yiddish theatre in Buenos Aires. He appeared as actor and …
Max Gabel
… 1895, performed in New York. Later he managed Gabel's Star Theater and other New York playhouses. He wrote and produced … History " website. (*the photo is taken from this site) … Yiddish theater playwright, producer and actor … Max Gabel …
Esther Rokhl Kaminska
… in operettas. She won fame as the star of a series of Yiddish theater companies. In Warsaw, in 1907 they together founded the Literary Troupe (Literarishe trupe), the first Yiddish theater company. She was the mother of Ida Kamińska …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… The passing of the founder of the Yiddish theater spawned a touching emotional response by Idelsohn. … sad rumor arrived that the founder of the Jewish theater in Yiddish, Abraham Goldfaden has died. And while all Jewish …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Had Gadya Kedusha Four Melodies for Four Questions Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong) The recordings of Yaakov Huri in the … Zentrum für Jüdische Musik (Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Germany) and the Jewish Music …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch directly upon the … form for an ‘Akedah piyyut was the monorhymed quatrain. In Yiddish Literature Literature composed in Yiddish also … Kultur in den SchUM-Städten: Literatur - Musik - Theater . Edited by Karl E. Grözinger, 247–260. Wiesbaden: …
Bernardo Feuer
… parts of operas in the original language or translated to Yiddish, workers’ songs, and choral symphonies drawn from … new Hazomir choir made its debut in 1958 at the Municipal Theater of Lima, in celebration of the tenth anniversary of … reconstrucción (unpublished) stands out, as does the Yiddish song Zalmele , which tells the story of an anonymous …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… This is an example of the presence of the Purim song in the Yiddish song revival in Germany. … Haynt Iz Purim, Brider … is one of the most familiar songs in the American Yiddish repertoire for Purim. It has appeared in many … play, as was the standard practice in the early Yiddish theater. ‘Flaker, Feirel, Flaker’ crossed the ocean rapidly, …