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A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … and saints, or Leidensgeschichte and Geistesgeschichte . Jewish Studies in this formulation consisted of the commemoration …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one … the special favor of the Duke who allowed her, as the only Jewish pupil, to visit his German primary school. All her … parents, early childhood in Libau (1883-1895) and yeshiva studies in Zamut (1895-1900) English version: I was born in …
Enrico Fink
… interests together with his ongoing rabbinical studies, and is often involved in chazanut in his home … and coordinators of the Online Thesaurus of Italian Jewish Music, international project devoted to the study of Italian Jewish musical repertoires. As a musician, he has devoted …
Sarah Harat
… scholarly education, an unusual feature for young Yemenite Jewish girls at the time. Sarah was exposed to the traditional poetry of the Yemeni Jewish women and to the sacred poetry, the Diwan, performed … Yosef Yitzhak Halevi, enriched her horizons with studies of sacred texts. Sarah accompanied her grandmother …
Léibele Schwartz
… March 22, 1928 as Yehudah Leib Kirzner. He began his music studies as a child with his father, Yaakov, who was a … , and on the bilingual radio program La Hora Israelita (The Jewish Hour) in the Radio Porteña station. In 1947, at the … Zedek , the third oldest synagogue in New York City and the Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills , one of the oldest …
Sara Levi-Tanai
… to dance and theater in Israel. Her works, deeply rooted in Jewish and Yemenite traditions, significantly shaped … Levi-Tanai was born in Jerusalem to a family of Yemenite Jewish immigrants. Her parents emigrated from Yemen as part … Inbal Dance Theater." Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues , no. 11 (Spring 2006): 164-197. …
Haim Louk
… at Em Habanim school in Casablanca, which integrated Jewish religious studies with general education, including French language … The curriculum encompassed Talmudic studies, piyyutim (Jewish liturgical poetry), traditional chanting of Psalms, …