… Izmir   The answer to this query may be found in the old Ottoman space, where the poem was indeed performed with a …

… 1896, was one of the first Hebrew newspapers published in Ottoman Palestine. Idelsohn’s article appeared in one of the … Jewish identity. The internal politics of the Russian Empire towards its Jewish population shuttered down cruelly … is referring to the ban on Yiddish theatre in the Russian Empire issued by Tsar Alexander III on August 17, 1883, that …

… Born in Myslowitz, Upper Silesia, then part of the German Empire (now Mysłowice, Poland), Geshuri (a name derived from … in his opinion, in the early Hassidic immigration to Ottoman Palestine. This musical “Orientalism” finds its … to Hassidic music in the territories of the Old Russian Empire. The rest of the materials remained scattered in …

… Poland, Germany as well as the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires. The text of Imber’s Tikvatenu was not bound to … Zionist agenda lingering among Hebrew educators in late Ottoman Palestine. These changes circulated therefore mostly … le-Tziyyon, one of the earliest Zionist settlements in Ottoman Palestine, who received it with enthusiasm.  Soon …

… of ascending, as do the Moroccan as well as many other Ottoman and Spanish-Portuguese versions. The scansion of the …

… and intellectual “renaissance” that characterized the Arab-Ottoman world during the nineteenth and early twentieth … the mid twentieth century. After the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the subsequent division of the region into …