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Meir Shimon Geshuri
… of the German Upper Silesia and the Austrian Western Galicia made it easy for me to think of acquiring an … Volume three was to be dedicated to Eastern and Western Galicia, Hungary, Bukovina and Old Rumania. Volume four …
Léibele Schwartz
Schwartz was born in Brod, Poland, on March 22, 1928 as Yehudah Leib Kirzner. He began…
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… in the fortress of Acre. It was set to music by the Galician Jewish musician Yosef Milet (1889-1947) who was one …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… falla h im, [3] Georgians, Sephardic Jews, kushim , [4] Galician Jews and so forth. All sorts of sounds emanated … manners of expressing their feelings and opinions. The Galicians made us laugh the most because they loved to show …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… probably made in Iaşi (Rumania) in 1877 or in Zloczow (Galicia in Poland, today Zolochev in Ukraine) in 1878 … modern Zionist movement in all its variants. Given Imber’s Galician background, the Polish inspiration of a debased … reception of Hatikvah in Europe is the prophesy by the Galician Zionist writer and journalist Isaac Fernhof …

Sher
… and dance style to the šer in Poland, Czechoslovakia, or Galicia, Rumania, and so on [fn. 3: Here I do not mean …