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Idelsohn: The Founder and Builder of the Science of Jewish Music – A Creator of Jewish Song

… of the most important spokesmen of Reform Judaism in the United States, and a prolific writer on Judaica. He was influential … Idelsohn. In 1923 the year of Idelsohn's arrival in the United States, the Council of Jewish Women in New …

Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films

… of the Yiddish-language film of the 1930s in Poland and the United States provides an example of this sort of unintentional …

Ben-Zion (Yisrael Noach) Kapov-Kagan

… Boleshiviks, Yisrael Noach eventually fled Russia for the United States by using the passport of his brother, Ben-Zion, whose … name he would retain for the remainder of his life. In the United States, he served as hazzan at the Ocean Parkway …

The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy

… of the prominent German-Jewish figures in the field to the United States, a narrative developed in which Comparative …

Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics

… Melngailis’s views during the Nazi occupation of the Baltic States. He quotes Melngailis’s mention of the linguist … to Solomon Shmulewitz (Small) who published the song in the United States as “ A brivele zu mamen ” ('A letter from … no. 428). Could the song have arrived in Latvia from the United States, in either a printed version or a commercial …