… sher , broyges-tants and others.” Cahan 1952b, p. 89 .  “Play me the polka, just as it’s written.”][Podalia, … pa de span, padekater, quadrille, polka, waltz, etc... played for both Jews and non-Jews.” Feldman 1994, p. 10 .  “‘R. Siminovitz, with a two-stringed fiddle...[played] the ‘polka,’ ‘kadril’ and ‘lanse’ ...” [Gedara, …

“How well I washed myself, how well I soaped myself, how I enjoyed my bath; let my…

… … Yiddish songs … Publishing house … Librettos … Poland … Play … Yiddish Theater … Playwright … Abraham Goldfaden … Die Kaprizne Kalemoyd (The …

Children’s invocation of rain is common in Sephardic traditions. When rain was needed,…

… and the musical background for a gala production of the play Švanda, the Bagpiper , by Josef Kajetán Tyl. Perhaps … popular production with Reiner’s incidental music was the play Esther, dramatized by E.F. Burian, the director of the …

… . (Musical notation included).  “At a wedding they used to play in honor of each in-law a ‘vivat’ and in the morning … the remaining in-laws. As soon as they enter, the klezmer play a freylekhs and the badkhn shouts: ‘Vivat!... After the … dance with her. When his oration is done, the klezmorim play a vivat...” [Staro-Konstantin, Ukraine, 1820s-30s]. …

… to Rivesman’s poem is attributed in the score to the playwright, composer and impresario Abraham Goldfaden … first time, with different words of course, in Goldfaden’s play Shulamit (1880) as ‘Flaker, Feirel, Flaker’ (Burn, … folk tune (or even two tunes) that he borrowed for this play, as was the standard practice in the early Yiddish …

… generations. He started his music career as a trumpet player in the British Police Band, which he joined as a … Palestine. After his release from the police, he began to play other musical instruments, especially plucked string … instruments, some of which he built. Later on, he started playing the violin, which became his main instrument for the …

Three versions of this theme are included in this collection, one from Rhodes and two…