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Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… melody to the same text is performed by Avraham Kanai, a Jewish Karaite from Kazakhstan. The third melody originated … Mikhlol 26 (2010): 113-122. Schur, N. The Karaite Encyclopedia . Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1995. Shapira, D. … as well as rhyme schemes that are characteristic of Russian and Polish songs. It is difficult to ascertain the …
Brakha Tzefira
… singer and as a choir conductor on various occasions. The Russian director Alexander Diki saw her in one of Hakumkum's … Tzefira knew from her childhood including Sephardic songs, Jewish songs from Yemen, Persia, and Bukhara, as well as … Brachah Zefira .' Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia . 1 March 2009. Jewish Women's Archive. . …
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 … Borodin and Moussorgsky – was introduced to the Russian Jewish composer and music critic Joel Engel . Stasov …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… of digital resources have enhanced the study of the Jewish liturgy helping us to make more accurate assessments … 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 …
Morris Rosenfeld
… Alter in 1862 in Stare Boksze, in Suwałki County, part of Russian Poland. Morris came from a family of fishermen. He … was connected with the editorial staff of several leading Jewish newspapers. In 1904 he started publishing a weekly … died in 1923, in New York City. Source: The Jewish Encyclopedia . … Yiddish poet … 0 … Yiddish songs … Hebrew …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … a relatively new Jewish settlement in Silesia] next to the Prussian border during [the Rebbe’s] journeys to the springs … volumes were intended to be the first of an encompassing Encyclopedia of Hassidism printed by “Netzah – Traditional …
Eliakum Zunser
… of poverty and intolerable and vicious harassment by the Russians, he wandered from city to city and at one time was … versions. Its theme was the joy of returning to plow the Jewish earth in the Holy Land. Zunser himself hoped to … Accessed online March, 1 2009. Nulman, Macy. Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music , New York: McGraw-Hill Book …
Jacob Bachman
… with Rubinstein, who was considered the 'westerner of Russian music,'* Bachmann choose a career in cantorate. He … between Joshua Abrass and Jacob Bachman, in which the Jewish community in Odessa was divided into two camps: the … Schirath Jacob . Moscow: P. Jurgenson, 1884. Sources: Encyclopedia Judaica ; Minkowski, Pinchas. “Misefer …
Moshe Rudinow
… of Odessa and Kherson. While working there, he translated Russian songs into Hebrew and Yiddish, and performed the music of Jewish composers such as Engel , Saminsky , and Milner . Due … at Temple Sinai in Oakland. Sources: ' Rudinow, Moshe.' Encyclopedia Judaica . Ed. Michael Berenbaum and Fred …
Max Weinreich
… Max Weinreich was a Russian Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics … 1945, pp. 13. Full biography at The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe . … Yiddish linguist …