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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… from minority communities which inhabited Latvia, namely, Jews, Roma, Russians, Germans, Lithuanians, Poles, Belarussians, Latgalians, Livornians, … songs in 1899), a complete Hebrew publication devoted to Lithuanian folk literature appeared (Yardeni-Zakheim 1928). …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German … region, urban Germany, Ottoman and early British Palestine, Lithuanian Jewish South Africa, and Midwestern American … Yemenites, Arabs, falla h im, [3] Georgians, Sephardic Jews, kushim , [4] Galician Jews and so forth. All sorts of …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… genuine Jewish piety. At the age of 12 years, I was sent to Lithuanian jeshivas, where I remained five years. During … modern city with German culture, my father picked for me a Lithuanian teacher in a Lithuanian-type cheder despite my … Upon Zangwill’s question, how can I return to Russia, where Jews are so maltreated, I answered that I prefer to be with …