… region. Before the Holocaust there, whenever there was a Jewish celebration (e.g., a wedding, Purim festivities, … The film examines how this persecuted group (the Rom) saved Jewish folk music until it could be returned to the Jews. We … throughout the Soviet Union playing classical, Rom, Russian and klezmer music until his death in1986. His …

… 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 …

… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis,  Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the … communities which inhabited Latvia, namely, Jews, Roma, Russians, Germans, Lithuanians, Poles, Belarussians, … The introduction offers English readers a survey of Jewish culture in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, …

… Leo Wiener was born in Bialystok, Russian Empire in 1862. He was an American historian, … linguist, author and translator. Wiener lectured on Slavic cultures at Harvard University and became the first American … Intellectual Assimilation. Yale University Press, 1991.  … Russian- American historian, linguist, author and translator …

… 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 …

… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library … explained by the excitement generated by the opening of the Russian and Ukrainian archives of Judaica to Israelis in the … Institute’s library [i.e. Institute for Jewish Proletarian Culture], the offhand assertion that it had ‘never been …

… , Idelsohn projected into this text his own vision of Jewish history and destiny as well as his take on prophecy … of modern Jewish identity. The internal politics of the Russian Empire towards its Jewish population shuttered down … his own self-understanding as a would-be prophet of Hebrew culture. According to Idelsohn, something sparked in the …

… and Moses Michail Milner , he founded the Society for Jewish Folk Music . Achron's association with these … tenure there was cut short by his draft into the Russian Army in 1916. In the years after World War I, Achron … a grant from the Leonid Nevzin Center for the Research of Russian and European Jewry.   Joseph (Yussl) Achron, Jewish …

… those areas of Ukraine (then part of Poland and later the Russian Empire). By the nineteenth century, it had become a … and Russian elites, as well as from Ukrainian peasant culture. A close examination of these reference points … as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is …

… essay intends to examine two individual cases of the German-Jewish symbiosis, two borderline cases of attempted … attempted integration, through assimilation, with German culture, not the German nation, for Mendelssohn was Prussian and Saxon, Mahler was Austrian - and both came close …