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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… publications of Jewish music, especially in anthologies of Yiddish songs, the most prominent language of this corpus. … that the absence of a scholar familiar with Hebrew and Yiddish folk songs was detrimental to this project. … The introduction offers English readers a survey of Jewish culture in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Institute’s library [i.e. Institute for Jewish Proletarian Culture], the offhand assertion that it had ‘never been … Library in Kiev,” Shofar 10, no. 4 [1992; Special Issue: Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies], pp. 31-48, quote in p. 34 … revolutionary Aleph cataloging system and in the Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew languages, engaged in this project from …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… music. This mode is common in prayer tunes, in the Yiddish folk song and in the old instrumental repertoire. … to the Eastern European melos of the Jewish prayer, Yiddish folksong and instrumental music, enabled the … century, becoming an emblematic signifier of modern Israeli culture. As Mazor has shown in his groundbreaking study, …
Pete Sokolow
… New York: 2013). This interview was conducted in English, Yiddish, Multiple languages. By Yiddish Book Center: Regenerating Jewish Culture. Pete Sokolow discussed and demonstrated the music …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… The passing of the founder of the Yiddish theater spawned a touching emotional response by … sad rumor arrived that the founder of the Jewish theater in Yiddish, Abraham Goldfaden has died. And while all Jewish … his own self-understanding as a would-be prophet of Hebrew culture. According to Idelsohn, something sparked in the …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… far beyond this constricting narrative to recover Jewish culture, economics, politics, and society. Yet something of … 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 …
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 modern city with German culture, my father picked for me a Lithuanian teacher in a … i.e. the “other” Ashkenazi Jews. See Jacobs, Neil G. Yiddish: A Linguistic Introduction . Cambridge: Cambridge …
Haim Louk
… to Ashkenazi cantorial traditions and acquired knowledge of Yiddish. After four years, he returned to Morocco and … Israeli musicians. In 2011, he was awarded the Ministry of Culture's Prize for Music in recognition of his …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… European landscape: Hasidic tish-nigunim. Nigunim (Yiddish nign , from the Hebrew niggun —melody) are chants, … areas were notated and audio-recorded. [1] Tish-nigunim (Yiddish: table-melodies) comprise one of the most … and Russian elites, as well as from Ukrainian peasant culture. A close examination of these reference points …