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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 … music … American cantors … Yiddish Theater … Yiddish Films … Yiddish songs … Mordekhai Hershman …
Moishe Oysher
… immigrated to Canada in 1921, where he joined a traveling Yiddish theater company. In 1932, he founded a Yiddish theater troupe in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After … to act periodically. His best known roles were in the films The Cantor's Son (1937), The Singing Blacksmith …
Leon Blank
… choir. Even from an early age, Blank felt an attraction to Yiddish theater. When the opportunity to travel to the … York. Blank also toured the U.S, performing extensively in Yiddish theaters across the country. On several occasions, … he was offered roles in Broadway plays and Hollywood films, but Blank preferred to remain on the Yiddish theater …
Abraham Ellstein
… was active on the radio and broadcasted programs about Yiddish music and Synagogue music. As a composer, he wrote 33 scores for Yiddish musical theater, over 500 Yiddish songs, and some scores for Yiddish films. In 1957, he transitioned to composing concert music …
Paul Muni (Weisenfreund)
… Austria in 1895. Muni's parents, both actors in a traveling Yiddish repertory company, immigrated to America in 1899. As … after which he was recruited to join Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theater Company. Muni often performed at the … a contract with Fox Studios, but after producing only two films, The Valiant and Seven Faces , he returned to the …
The Dybbuk - Der dibuk
… Feature. 123 min., B&W, Yiddish with English subtitles Directed by Michal Waszynski … (An-ski) : Based on the play by S. Ansky The Dybbuk is a Yiddish film classic based on the celebrated play of the …
A Man from Munkasc: Gypsy Klezmer
… for Jews for so many years that some of them spoke a fluent Yiddish. The film examines how this persecuted group (the … … 51 … 9 … Duna TV (Hungary) and Starcrest Films (Frankfurt, Germany). … … 2005 … Holocaust … Klezmer musicians … Klezmer music … Yiddish … World War II - 2nd World War - WW2 … Klezmer … …
Klezmer on Fish Street (JIMF)
… years earlier. As this 'next generation' of proponents of Yiddish culture explores their roots, the grandmother … … 81 … 9 … USA … Distributor: Castle Hill Films … … 2003 … Klezmer musicians … Klezmer music … America … Yiddish … Klezmer … Poland … American … Documentary … …
Yiddish art songs : a comparative study and analysis of selected works of three composers representing Russia, America and Israel
… Ami Maayani. … 1 … Columbia University … University Microfilms International … … 1983 … Jewish … Music … Analysis … Art Music … Art … Yiddish … Society … Yiddish songs … Society for Jewish Folk Music … Moses …
A letter to mother - A Brivele der Mamen
… Directed by Joseph Green Classic Yiddish film from 1939 with music by Abe Ellstein . In this … a Passover seder is also featured and a few non-religious Yiddish songs are sung during the course of the film. More … website . … 9 … … Pesach … 1939 … Yiddish … Yiddish Films … Joseph Green … Passover … Abraham Ellstein … Niggun …