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Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… with both internal traditions and external influences—from Polish and Russian elites, as well as from Ukrainian peasant … eastern Europe’s Hasidim into two camps: Russian and Polish. The centuries-long cultural, economic, and political … European Hasidic tradition. The music of Hasidic composers employed by Rebbes stands apart from the other two …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… how to read. Later I found out, that they were [tunes of] Polish folksongs or Hussar [cavalry] marches. The local as … melody; by the fact that all of the works of the great composers of synagogal music were none other than German … by the people. It has no art-song, and no individual composers. 3) Composers of Jewish origin have in their …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… to document a soon-to-vanish world, filmmakers and film composers deployed a number of myths, strategies, and … The cameraman who filmed the wedding-dance sequence in the Polish town of Kazimierz Dolny (nad Wisa) for Yidl mitn …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… could have been Mazurek Dąbrowskiego , the famous Polish patriotic song written in 1797 by Józef Wybicki that … in 1926. The process of gestation and reception of this Polish anthem show similarities to that of Hatikvah . … song was a standard practice of Russian romans and opera composers. In short, one can surmise that there were certain …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… Conservatory and the benign encouragement of leading composers such as Aleksandr K. Glazunov and Nikolai A. … to detect the traces of empire in the aesthetics of Jewish composers. The clearest example of these various ideological … Liadov, Glazunov, Balakirev, and others, reflected what the Polish Jewish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman termed …
The Dybbuk - Der dibuk
… in Poland in 1937 and brought together the best talents of Polish Jewry, script writers, composers, choreographers, set designers, actors and … cultural richness of both pre-WWI shtetl communities and Polish Jewry on the eve of WWII. … 81 … 81 … 9 … 35791 … …
Mordekhai Hershman
… (Mordecai; Mordkhe) Hershman was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov) in the Chernigov Governorate of the … , featured Samuel Goldenburg and Dora Weissman. This Polish screening of “Shir Hashirim” included also the … David Assaf's blog ). The text, that attracted many Jewish composers, is from the Book of Isaiah (2:1-4) and the …
Max Helfman
… Max Helfman was a Polish-born American Jewish composer, choral conductor, … Conservative Judaism … Labor … Zionism … America … American composers … Max Helfman …
Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… educator and composer;' in Variety, 'as one of the top composers;” and by Ascap Today as, 'a major force in … There he made every possible effort to broaden his Polish BA and MA education by constantly taking numerous …
Henech Kon
… Kon was an important member of the thriving inter-war Polish-Jewish cultural scene. He wrote popular songs, and … website) … Composer and Cabaret performer … 0 … Poland … Polish composers … Polish Jewry … Theater music … Yiddish songs … …