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Moshe Attias
The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent passing of Cheikh…
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… that Jewish music was a defiant response to Russian antisemitism. It was a proud form of Jewish cultural … Music is really about the strange interplay between Russian antisemitism and philosemitism, which together shaped Jewish … conditions in terms of both Russian politics and European antisemitism. Most of all, it is due to the fact that the …
Hermann Levi's shame and Parsifal's guilt:A critique of essentialism in biography and criticism
According to revisionist readings by scholars including Hartmut Zelinsky, Rolf Schneider…
David Finko: Russkij kompozitor v Amerike. [David Finko: A Russian composer in America.]
Finko (b.1936) emigrated to the U.S. in 1979, after having grown up in Leningrad and…
Felix Mendelssohn- Gustav Mahler: Two Borderline Cases of German- Jewish Assimilation
Mendelssohn and Mahler represent the attempts of Jewish composers to assimilate into…
Comedian Harmonists
… 1997 … Holocaust … Germany … German Jews … Jews … Feature … Antisemitism … Comedian Harmonists …
The Comedian Harmonists - Documentary
… … Holocaust … Germany … German Jews … Jews … Documentary … Antisemitism … The Comedian Harmonists - Documentary …
The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire
'No image of prerevolutionary Russian Jewish life is more iconic than the fiddler on the…
Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro…
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco received his formal musical education at the Istituto Musicale…