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Music of the Ghetto and the Bible
… (1882-1959), with Jewish communities in his homeland, the Russian Empire and elsewhere, the book is a document of the late …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… Voice and Jews In the spring of 1897, on the eve of the Russian Orthodox Easter, two Russian musicians met in an encounter that was to have … Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire . New Haven: Yale University Press. Articles : From …
The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire
… 'No image of prerevolutionary Russian Jewish life is more iconic than the fiddler on the … and burgeoning Jewish nationalism, how and why did Russian music become the gateway to modern Jewish identity? … Russia … Jewish identity … Russian Jewish culture … Russian Empire … James Loeffler … The Most Musical Nation: Jews and …
Mordechai Yardeni (Motl Sherman)
… in 1906 in the town of Slovechno (Volyn province of the Russian Empire, now Ukraine). His father, Chaim Sherman, was a …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… Born in Myslowitz, Upper Silesia, then part of the German Empire (now Mysłowice, Poland), Geshuri (a name derived from … a relatively new Jewish settlement in Silesia] next to the Prussian border during [the Rebbe’s] journeys to the springs … Congress Poland, which had to be separated from the Russian volumes due to space considerations. The fifth and …
Joseph Achron
… tenure there was cut short by his draft into the Russian Army in 1916. In the years after World War I, Achron … a grant from the Leonid Nevzin Center for the Research of Russian and European Jewry. Joseph (Yussl) Achron, Jewish … 1886 in Lodzdzieje, Suvalki, then province of the Russian Empire, now Lazdijai , Lithuania . He was initially taught …
Mordekhai Hershman
… (Polish: Chernikhov) in the Chernigov Governorate of the Russian Empire, today Chernihiv in Ukraine and died in New York City … of 25. During World War I, Hershman was drafted into the Russian Army, but it is said that his officer was so …
Joseph Schillinger
… He was born in Kharkiv, in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) and died in New York City. Full …
Seymour Rechzeit
… Seymour Rechzeit was born on January 18, 1908 in Petrikov, Russian Empire (now Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland). He was an actor, …
Mark Isakovich Rabinovich
… in 1870 in the town of Zdvyzhensk (Kiev province of the Russian Empire; now Brusilov, Ukraine). He studied music under the …