… scores, recordings, and more.    ' Play Me a Song ' In Yiddish by Henekh Kon, words by Y. Kotliar:       *(The … Poland … Polish composers … Polish Jewry … Theater music … Yiddish songs … Henech Kon …

… modernizing trends characterized by an exposure to Western culture (most particularly French), to liberal trends in …

… 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 …

… to Warsaw. At the age of 16, he began to write songs in Yiddish. His debut song, 'Dos Feld' ('The Field'), was … he joined the Poalei Zion Left Party, which saw modern Yiddish literature as a central part of Jewish identity. … of the Land of Israel), stories, and literary criticism in Yiddish magazines in Poland, Israel, and the United States …

… 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 …

… its melody, one which I had learned in connection with the Yiddish song “Shnirele Perele.” In my initial exploration, I was sure that I had found a classic example of an old Yiddish melody that was reclaimed by Hebrewists in Europe or … and European Zionism, mid-century Yiddish secular culture, the contemporary klezmer scene, and even into …

… 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, …

… for the first time, as a manuscript addition (Hebrew and Yiddish) to a copy of the Ashkenazi haggadah printed in … (with a few Aramaic words) along with a translation into Yiddish. One defining characteristic of the Yiddish … differentiate their song from the ones from the surrounding cultures because the number thirteen is considered to be an …

… for Jews for so many years that some of them spoke a fluent Yiddish. The film examines how this persecuted group (the … … … 2005 … Holocaust … Klezmer musicians … Klezmer music … Yiddish … World War II - 2nd World War - WW2 … Klezmer … …