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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 … as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is … Judit. 2010. “Music for Sacred Texts.” In The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe , edited by Gershon …
Jacob Ben-Ami
… with various cantors and performed behind the curtains in Russian theatre. At seventeen, Ben-Ami began acting with the Russian State Theatre. Starting with walk-on roles, he … and Hirshbein's Faraway Corner . From 1919 to 1920, the Jewish Art Theatre was founded under Ben-Ami's leadership …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the … communities which inhabited Latvia, namely, Jews, Roma, Russians, Germans, Lithuanians, Poles, Belarussians, … Volksmusik. Levin, Dov (ed.) 1988. Pinkas HaKehillot (Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities from Their Foundation …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern … 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 …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … Mahzor at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy in St. Petersburg D 101 (F 69720) includes … [Cohen’s article on] Adonai Beḳol Shofar [in the Jewish Encyclopedia]) is sung to the congregational hymns. It [the …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, … of the mode. This may be understood as an instance of what Russian theorists call “mutability” ( ‘peremennost’ ); see … ———. 2013. “Biblical Accents: Prosody.” In Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics . 288–96. …
The Russian Jewish Evreiskaia Entsylopledia
… … 33904 … St. Petersburg … Brockhaus-Efron … … 1908-1913 … Russian Jewish encyclopedia … The Russian Jewish Evreiskaia Entsylopledia …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its … non-Jewish nations, Poland, Germany as well as the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires. The text of Imber’s … is even expected. Take for example what the popular encyclopedia online Jewish Virtual Library has to say in …
Leo Wiener
… Leo Wiener was born in Bialystok, Russian Empire in 1862. He was an American historian, … MA. Biographies: ' Leo Wiener' in The World Online Encyclopedia. ' Leo Weiner ' in Wikipedia. More sources: … Intellectual Assimilation. Yale University Press, 1991. … Russian- American historian, linguist, author and translator …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… 720 … In honor of May Day and the tradition of Jewish political radicalism in late nineteenth-century … and national rights for Jews.' Picture taken from the YIVO encyclopedia website . “In Zaltsikn Yam” consists of ten … Lita un Poilin, der yiddisher arbeter Bund,” (long live the Russian, Lithuanian, and Polish Jewish labor Bund). This …