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Rabbi David Buzaglo
… poetic dexterity. This practice was common in the Ottoman Empire but much less so in the Maghreb. By setting text to … by Itzhak Katzenelson; this song itself originates from a Russian tune. [7] Moroccan cantors do not know how this … “Bab el Wad,” a poem by the Israeli poet Haim Guri set to a Russian melody that marks a key event in the 1948 War of …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… those areas of Ukraine (then part of Poland and later the Russian Empire). By the nineteenth century, it had become a … Twersky (1808–1882) of Talne (Yiddish spelling: Tolne; in Russian: Talnoye); hence his nickname “Tolner.” While the …
Pinchas Borenstein
… which was then part of the Kingdom of Poland under the Russian Empire (now Poland). He grew up in a religious family; his …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… in a town called Felixburg which was renamed Kurland by the Russians. [2] Yiska's dad's dad was Azriel Idelsohn. He was born in Felixburg, Libau on the Latvia-Prussian border. He was a Chasid and a Ba'al Tefilah, one who … was one of the most important Baltic ports of the Russian Empire and a favorite summer resort. It was under heavy …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… of modern Jewish identity. The internal politics of the Russian Empire towards its Jewish population shuttered down cruelly … Idelsohn is referring to the ban on Yiddish theatre in the Russian Empire issued by Tsar Alexander III on August 17, …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… as “folk melody.” Indeed, the tune recalls those of Russian folksongs. However, it has not been located, thus … Europe, “Der arbeter.” The popularity of “Piramidn” in the Russian Empire and later on in the Soviet Union (where Edelstadt’s …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… the printed edition was hard to acquire, or Ms. Moscow, Russian State Library, Ms. Guenzburg 280/5, Italy, 18 th … distribution among Sephardic communities in the Ottoman Empire, independently of its German lineage. Significantly, …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… non-Jewish nations, Poland, Germany as well as the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires. The text of Imber’s Tikvatenu was not bound to … Palestine in order to strengthen the connection between the Russian Hovevei Zion and the employees of the Baron …
Leo Wiener
… Leo Wiener was born in Bialystok, Russian Empire in 1862. He was an American historian, linguist, … Intellectual Assimilation. Yale University Press, 1991. … Russian- American historian, linguist, author and translator …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… Conservatory? Because it is the only school in the Russian Empire with a quota for non-Jewish students.” [2] Rosowsky’s … a time when Jews formed roughly four percent of the total Russian imperial population and stringent admissions quotas …