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Israel Adler

… for the Preservation of the Musical Traditions of the Jews), founder and president of the Provisional Council of … mainstream of early Western music history at a time when Jews were ostensibly segregated from all contact with the … was directed during the Soviet period by the distinguished Russian Jewish musicologist Moise Beregovski. Located at the …

Abraham Zvi Idelsohn

… brother-in-law, who came to visit us, but had to stop in Prussia, because he had no legal right to enter Russia, we … Upon Zangwill’s question, how can I return to Russia, where Jews were so maltreated, I answered that I prefer to be with … song; even Lewandowski seemed Germanized. The life of the Jews in Germany, too, was Germanized. This was not only …

Amnon Shiloah

… libraries thorough Europe, Israel, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Russia, and Uzbekistan. These volumes, an obligatory tool … exclusive ethnographic experience among the contemporary Jews of the Lands of Islam who moved to Israel. Of … is his work with the small enclave of Greek-speaking Jews that survived the Holocaust. Besides the RISM volumes …

James Loeffler

… University, (2006), Dissertation: 'The Most Musical Nation: Jews, Culture and Nationalism in the Late Russian Empire'; M.A. Columbia University (2000); … DC). Research interests: History of Jewish art music; Russian Jewish composers; music in Yiddish culture; history …

Hebraeisch-orientalischer Melodienschatz, 09[E]: Der Volksgesang der osteuropaeischen Juden [The Folk Song of the East European Jews]

… HOM Vol IX contains Jewish folk songs in Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, and Ukranian. Each song is printed with … osteuropaeischen Juden [The Folk Song of the East European Jews] …

From Shtetl to Swing

… Documentary. Between 1880 and 1924, 2.5 million Jews fled persecution in Russia and Eastern Europe and arrived in the land of milk …

A Man from Munkasc: Gypsy Klezmer

… explores the symbiotic relationship between the Rom and Jews who lived together before and after World War Two in … etc.), most of the time the klezmer musicians were not Jews but Rom. In fact, the Rom had played with and for Jews … throughout the Soviet Union playing classical, Rom, Russian and klezmer music until his death in1986. His …

The Comedian Harmonists - Documentary

… were exiled from Germany. They went to Vienna, appeared in Russia and even made a recording with Josephine Baker before … 9 … Germany (West) … … 1977 … Holocaust … Germany … German Jews … Jews … Documentary … Antisemitism … The Comedian Harmonists …

King of the Klezmer Clarinet

… tracks: 1. Heiser Bulgar 2. Freit Sich, Yiddelach (Be Happy Jews) 3. Der Terkisher-Bulgar Tanz 4. Kolomeika (Ukrainian … yahr fon der heim awek (fifteen years away from home) (Russian Dance) 24. Vie tsvie is Naftule der driter (Where …

Bar Kochba

… period of great social instability and political peril for Jews living in Russia. Under the rule of his successor Alexander III, Jews experienced increased violence and oppression. In …

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