Documentary. Yiddish and Hebrew w/ English subtitles. 53 min. Too Early To Be Quiet,…

… movement through the prism of one of its most effective cultural products: songs destined to be performed by “the … Tel Aviv), he graduated from the Pardes Chana Agricultural High School. In the late 1950s while serving as …

Esther Warkov's seminal contributions to the study of Arab music and Arab-Jewish…

… songs were embraced and admired by some members of the cultural elite as a desirable component of the new Zionist …

Leo Levi was the first scholar to devote research to the Italian Jewish oral musical…

… of Prof. Moshe Idel. In addition to his academic studies, he studied halakha with two of the greatest rabbis … but when I say folklore I mean a deep understanding of the cultural subtext, of what lies beneath the surface, and in …

Leó Weiner was born in Budapest. He had his first music and piano lessons from his…

… Yosef Yitzhak Halevi, enriched her horizons with studies of sacred texts. Sarah accompanied her grandmother … Belief and Society ,” held by the Center for Folklore and Cultural Heritage at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington … for her contribution for the preservation of her cultural heritage. The Amnon Shiloah Collection at the Sound …

Moses Beregovski was born in the Ukraine in 1892.  He was exposed to liturgical…

… never approved of her becoming involved. Yet after the rich cultural climate she had experienced in Dresden she was at … of Oregon that Schönberg became truly inspired by her studies in dance. In 1929 Schönberg decided to leave Oregon …