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Leon Blank
Leon Blank was born in Lithuania in 1867. When Blank was just a boy, his family moved to…
Mordekhai Zeira
Life
Mordekhai Zeira was born in Kiev, Russia, in 1905. Although he was born to a…
Boris Thomashevsky
Boris Thomashevsky, son of Yiddish actor and playwright Pincas Thomashevsky, was born in…
Sholom Secunda
Sholom Secunda was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson…
Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro…
Mordechai Yardeni (Motl Sherman)
Mordechai Yardeni was Born as Motl Sherman in 1906 in the town of Slovechno (Volyn…
The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Late Manifestation of the Musical Trope
Western Ashkenazi cantors have developed a new soloist style of liturgically important…
Words and music : a selection from his writings
Abridged and translated version of the Yiddish title 'Vort un klang' (1979). Translated…
The Hasidic Dance- Niggun: A Study Collection and its Classificatory Analysis
The second part of the article includes 250 Hassidic Dance nigunnim, recorded in…