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Brakha Tzefira
… and her father died from typhus when she was three years old. After the death of her parents, she was brought to live … in the Bukharan Quarter of Jerusalem. This area of the city was inhabited by immigrants from Bukhara, Tashkent and … of Sephardic families, Tzefira attended a school in the old city, and later the Lemel School. On her walks through …
Mazel Tov Yidden
… Nidrei [this performance can also be found in the films Golden Voices of Israel and Great Cantors of the Golden Age ]. … 9 … … 1941 … Yiddish Films … Yiddish songs … … … Vaudeville … Kol Nidre … Leibele Waldman … New York City … Mazel Tov Yidden …
Abyadi Ana
… other from the Jewish community of Rabat, Morocco’s capital city. The song begins by praising the Tsabach ritual … the Fifth’s court in Rabat, Morocco they say when she sang soldiers fought with knives to clear a path through the crowd … needing an expensive surgery in Paris. With the help of an old friend from Morocco, Jojo and his daughter Vivi, starred …
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… arrived in Amsterdam because of religious tolerance in the city; religious wars and persecution of different faiths by … Ten Commandments engraved in Hebrew letters coated with gold. The bimah stands on the other side of the room, on a … more in the center of the room. Together, four chandeliers hold 1,000 candles; all of the candles are lit during every …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… these songs are only remembered by a small hardcore of old Hebrew songs’ enthusiasts. Dort wo die Zeder was one of … Idelsohn remarks there that Dort wo die Zeder is a “25-year old Zionist song” and stresses the coincidental similitude … in 1917 for the Columbia Phonogram Co. label in New York City, plate no. E3617. Reception Soon after it was …
Uncle Moses
… Directed by Sidney Goldin and Aubrey Scotto This 1932 film, based on Shalom … Films … Yiddish songs … Yiddish … Wedding … New York City … Immigrants … Immigration … Maurice Schwartz … America …
Yiddish Theater: A Love Story
… for the last remaining Yiddish theater company in New York City. The other story told is of Yiddish theater itself, some of its history in the … world such as piles of the original scores for many of the old plays. An additional important aspect of the …
Atah Ehad
… connected to the Bohush dynasty originating from Bukovina (Moldavia, today divided between Rumania and Ukraine). No. … a gesture of memorialization symbolizing nostalgia for the Old World that was left behind by the Zionist dream. Abraham … as it developed in Palestine, and particularly in the city where he lived, Tel Aviv. He missed the gatherings of …
Chasidic in America
… Yiddish films, The Cantor's Son was directed by Sidney Goldin (who stepped down before the film was completed due to … in a distinctive instrumental (klezmer) style of Romanian-Moldavian extraction. Weiss sings an ostinato while Oysher … Avenue in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, the hub of Yiddish theater. In America cantors could …
Likhvod Hatanna Haelokai (In Honor of the Holy Tanna)
… under the open skies, the first haircut for three-year-old boys, and processions with Torah scrolls. These are all … Holy Ari (R. Isaac Luria Ashkenazi) from Safed, the main city of the Upper Galilee located rather near to Mount … sun/ By the merits of etc. Honest pioneers, young and old/ Whom have you here and what have you here/ In the honor …