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Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… European landscape: Hasidic tish-nigunim. Nigunim (Yiddish nign , from the Hebrew niggun —melody) are chants, … Israeli one, in which Arabic and Turkish tunes, new Yiddish theater melodies, Hebrew quasi-Hasidic songs, and old … Mazor, Yaakov, and Edwin Seroussi. 1990. “Towards a Hasidic Lexicon of Music.” Orbis Musicae 10:118–43. Minkovski, …
Jacob Ben-Ami
… a meeting with Peretz Hirshbein led to founding the first Yiddish Dramatic Theatre, which Ben-Ami both acted and … "J acob Ben‐Ami, Actor, Dies at 86; A Founder of Jewish Art Theater ." The New York Times , July 23, 1977. "Jacob … Agency. July 26, 1977. … Yiddish theatre actor … Actor … Lexicon of Yiddish Theater … Yiddish Theater … Boris …
Tish-nign (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT compiles a … (religious folk songs), kind of lik Black spirituals, and Yiddish folk songs or theater songs.” Alpert 1996a, p. 16. “These klezmorim know …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT) . The LKT compiles a … We know of cases in which Ukrainian peasants took up Yiddish frejlaxs and šers (cf. chapter 3 of the present … tune] on a copy of a 78 recording of a Yiddish theater wedding scene. It is peformed by the State Ensemble …
Tsu der khupe (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT compiles a … found... [this tune] on a copy of a 78 recording of a Yiddish theater wedding scene. It is peformed by the State Ensemble …
Bazetsens (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT ). The LKT compiles a … found... [this tune] on a copy of a 78 recording of a Yiddish theater wedding scene. It is peformed by the State Ensemble …
Chasidic in America
… and actress, Florence Weiss. They performed it on the theater stage, in concerts in North and South America, and in the 1937 Yiddish film The Cantor’s Son (Dem Khazns Zundyl) . O ne of … 2002, esp. chapter 3 (pp. 51-77). Zylbercweig, Zalmen. Lexicon of the Yiddish Theater , vol. 3. New York: The …
Annie Lubin
… Annie Lubin was an actress at the Yiddish Theater in Poland. In 1914 she immigrated to America, where she continued to performed. Full biography at the 'Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre' . … Yiddish theater actress …
Lucy Levin
… America. She became a famous actress and played at several theaters from 1925 to 1933. Full biography from the 'Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre'. … Yiddish theater actress … 0 … Actress … …
Zalman Zylbercweig
… Poland. His father was Tsvi-Hirsh Zylbercweig, a Hebrew and Yiddish writer. As a young boy, Zalman moved to Lodz with … Reines. Zylbercweig’s formal connection with the Yiddish theater began in 1912, when he became involved in the … base for his seminal work, Leksikon fun Yidishn Teater (Lexicon of Yiddish Theater). In 1924, he left Lodz to settle …
Ya'akov Orland
… lasting until Alterman's death. In 1933, he began studying theater informally and organized readings of English poetry, … meter and rhyme, and a gifted translator from English and Yiddish. His achievements earned him numerous awards, … materials are preserved at Bar-Ilan University. Sources : Lexicon Hasifrut Haivrit and Zemereshet (Hebrew). … 49995 …
Mordechai Yardeni (Motl Sherman)
… Forverts' . At the same time, the Philadelphia newspaper ' Yiddishe Welt' began to publish his musical and theatrical reviews. In February 1930, at the Gibson Theater, he made his debut in the operetta Hasidish … Association and the editorial board of the Jewish Theater Lexicon. Mordechai Yardeni died in 1982 in Miami Beach, …


