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Léibele Schwartz
Schwartz was born in Brod, Poland, on March 22, 1928 as Yehudah Leib Kirzner. He began…
Jacob Ben-Ami
… Dymow, Hauptmann, Tolstoy, and Lang. Transitioning to the English-language stage in 1920, Ben-Ami starred in Arthur Hopkin s' … he died in 1977, he left a lasting legacy in Yiddish and English theatre. His niece, Jennifer Warren , is an actress …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… Seroussi Note: This article appeared in parallel columns in English, French and German in Musica Hebraica (1-2 [1938]: … obviously wrote his piece in French. [1] The translator to English took some noticeable liberties, at times concealing … families of Provence; and a little dictionary of this language was published about half a century ago in a Jewish …
Haim Louk
… religious studies with general education, including French language classes. The curriculum encompassed Talmudic …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… Lukin. Feldman (2016, 236) cites Mark Slobin’s unpublished English translation of Beregovski’s introduction to his … tradition, honoring the old eastern-Ashkenazi musical language. In all probability, Beregovski’s reservations hint … the innovative lingual turn—extensive use of the Yiddish language, which earlier dominated literature for women and …
Yaakov Huri
… cards throughout the West Bank. His command of three languages English, Arabic and Hebrew led him to this job in which he … between Judeo-Spanish, Arabic, Persian and other “minor” languages. Within these linguistic groupings, she …
A Flowering Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not just) for Tu BiShvat
… y leshon hacodesh , i.e. “Song about the flowers in three languages Levantine [Judeo-Spanish], Turkish and holy tongue … form. The Eastern version of El debate de las flores with English translation can be found in a special online project …