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Esther Rokhl Kaminska
… in operettas. She won fame as the star of a series of Yiddish theater companies. In Warsaw, in 1907 they together … founded the Literary Troupe (Literarishe trupe), the first Yiddish theater company. She was the mother of Ida Kamińska … well-known stage and film actress, who cofounded the Warsaw Yiddish Art Theater in the 1920s, and, in 1946, following …
Max Gabel
… History " website. (*the photo is taken from this site) … Yiddish theater playwright, producer and actor … Max Gabel …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… attended as there were by that time several Hebrew and Yiddish plays on the subject. One sound possibility is the … the Ashkenazi community run by the Haredi community where Yiddish was spoken. See, Efraim Cohen Reiss, Mizikhronot Ish … several 78rpms of hazzanut for Polydor. See: http://www.yiddishmusic.jewniverse.info/pinkasowiczsalomo/index.html …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… that was later on replaced by the Jewish-German dialect [Yiddish] in its Kurlandian variant. Although, Libau was a … i.e. the “other” Ashkenazi Jews. See Jacobs, Neil G. Yiddish: A Linguistic Introduction . Cambridge: Cambridge …
Léibele Schwartz
… the Abasto quarter, one of the four theaters that presented Yiddish musicals and vaudevilles during the Golder Era of Yiddish theatre in Buenos Aires. He appeared as actor and … in the musical A fon vert geboyrn ( A flag is born ), an Yiddish adaptation of Ben Hecht’s Zionist fundraiser pageant …
Pinchas Borenstein
… … American cantors … Opera … Ashkenazi liturgical music … Yiddish songs … Pinchas Borenstein …
Jacob Ben-Ami
… a meeting with Peretz Hirshbein led to founding the first Yiddish Dramatic Theatre, which Ben-Ami both acted and … and direction by Emanuel Reicher . Known as "The New Yiddish Theatre" in Yiddish, it featured works by Hirshbein, Sholem Asch, Sholem …
Sarah Gorby
… Moldova), was a renowned Jewish singer known for performing Yiddish, Russian, and French folk songs. Her birth name was … a significant turn in the 1930s when she began recording Yiddish folk songs. Her recordings resonated with the Jewish … base. Sarah Gorby is best known for her interpretation of Yiddish songs, which she performed with a profound sense of …
Haim Louk
… to Ashkenazi cantorial traditions and acquired knowledge of Yiddish. After four years, he returned to Morocco and …