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The Unfortunate Bride
… the conflict between the traditional and modern ways of life that greeted Jewish immigrants upon their arrival in America. … 9 … … …
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… known by its Ladino name, Esnoga, and is one of the Dutch Jewish community's most important structures. Its history and that of Amsterdam's Jewish community reflects the history of the entire Jewish … as 'new Christians,' and the attempt to live a Jewish life in accordance to the Halakha, all within the context of …
Racheli Galay
… is a cellist, educator, and researcher specializing in Jewish music and music education in Israel. She earned her … University of Tel-Aviv. She is a Visiting Researcher at the Jewish Music Research Center at the Hebrew University. Some … and others. Galay wrote her doctoral dissertation on the life and music of cellist-composer Joachim Stutschewsky and …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… status it acquired exemplify the mechanisms through which Jewish modernity articulated itself on the basis of German … speed with which Dort wo die Zeder spread throughout Jewish (and as we shall see also non-Jewish) spaces as an … performance of Dort wo die Zeder on different occasions proliferate. Just as an example, the song was performed at the …
Tree of Life
… Yemenite, and secular. … 9 … … 1971 … Musical traditions … Jewish cultural groups … Upsherin … Israel … Tree of Life …
Uncle Moses
… rights and unionization and the contrast between their new life in America and the shtetl life that was left behind. … after he does actions whose morality is arguable. Other Jewish music accompanies the film as well. There is a long … … Yiddish Talking Pictures inc. (1932), National Center for Jewish Film (2007) … … 1932 … Yiddish Films … Yiddish songs …
Wild Man Blues
… could raise the question whether this film is relevant to Jewish music or not. Its relevance can be found by looking … Allen's name and films have become synecdoches for American Jewish culture. The film's connection between the man and … soundtracks, but to also see him during his day to day life. In that sense the film connects between the Jazz music …
Coplas - Complas
… many more up to our century. Their subjects related to the Jewish festivities of the year cycle, or expressed the … and Livorno) and the authors’ names are known. A Jewish repertoire composed by Jews for the Jewish community’s life, they are sung mostly by men, reading from printed …
Yiddish Theater: A Love Story
… tale. The first is of Zypora Spaisman, who dedicated her life to keeping Yiddish theater and culture alive into the … … Yiddish Theater … Yiddish songs … Yiddish … Diasporic Jewish Culture … New York City … America … Immigrants … …
Had Gadya
… of intensive study by a distinguished gallery of modern Jewish and non-Jewish scholars since the early nineteenth-century, starting … in Israel and among the nations,” Assufot: Annual of Jewish Studies 2 (5748[1988]), 201-226 (in Hebrew). This …