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Abraham Goldfaden
… Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro Konstantinov, Ukraine. In … early Hebrew poems in 1862 in Ha-Meliz , and several of his Yiddish poems in Kol Mevasser , shortly thereafter. In 1865 … Zizim u-Ferahim , and in 1965 an additional booklet of Yiddish songs, Dos Yudele . In 1875, he left his teaching …
Abigail Wood
… of Music, University of Haifa. Completed her PhD on Yiddish song in contemporary North America at Cambridge … In 2013 her book ''And we're all brothers': Singing in Yiddish in contemporary North America' has been published. … Current research interests include contemporary klezmer and Yiddish song, music in Jewish-Christian relations and music …
Michael Lukin
… of Jerusalem. In his PhD dissertation, entitled “The Yiddish Folk Song: Poetics and Music” and completed at the … provides a frame of reference for the characterization of Yiddish folk singing – its main genres, performance … music, Hasidic nigun, Mysticism and music by Jews, and Yiddish verbal folklore. You can read an article on …
Ya'akov Orland
… meter and rhyme, and a gifted translator from English and Yiddish. His achievements earned him numerous awards, …
Joseph Achron
… teaching and performing, and began to write music for the Yiddish Theater. In 1932 he was commissioned to compose … music ensembles and wrote music for Maurice Schwarz’s Yiddish Art Theatre and for synagogue services. In New York …
Samuel Alman
… also wrote and published several arrangements of popular Yiddish folk songs. … Composer of Synagogue and Secular …
Sholom Secunda
… charge $100 for a Shabbat service. Sholom got his start in Yiddish theater shortly after arriving to New York City. … Lower East Side. It was then that he came into contact with Yiddish Theater star David Kessler. After his soprano voice … full-time study in 1914. Sholom's first engagement in a Yiddish Theater production was as an extra in Max Gabel 's …
Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)
… Join His Choir ,' can be viewed on YouTube courtesy of the Yiddish Book Center. … Cantor & composer … …
Mordekhai Hershman
… Hershman sang as meshorer with Zeidel Rovner in Berdychiv (Yiddish: Barditshev) and when his voice changed from alto to … Ben Zion Miller. It also includes the original article in Yiddish describing the installation of Cantor Hershman at … only recordings of cantorial music but also folk songs in Yiddish. As the following announcement ( Der Moment of …
Pinhas Jassinowsky
… Jassinowsky was also a prolific composer of liturgical and Yiddish folk music. His most well known liturgical … … Song … Cantor … Composer … Liturgical … Music … Yiddish … Folk … Songs … Pinhas Jassinowsky …