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“Die alte Kasche” (Volkslied) – The Old Question (Folksong)
… Die alte Kasche stands out in the Yiddish folksong corpus for its simplest and yet … In the case of Stutchewsky, the choice of this austere Yiddish song fits the overall minimalist aesthetics of this … , emphasizing the word alte is similar to the way the language is pronounced in speech. The rhythm and contour of …
Bulbe (Volkslied) – “Potato” (Folksong)
… to break out of order, the special characteristics of the Yiddish, the word-games and more. [2] Bulbe , much like Die alte kasche, was at the time a canonic Yiddish folksong. If Die alte kasche represented the deep … style spirit. Stutchewsky refrained from the modernistic language that dominates the album in favor of a more …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… I was surprised to hear them speaking in the Hebrew language and what amazed me even more was hearing the … 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
… here to English. Both were reprinted in their original language in Idelsohn’s memorial volume, Yuval 5 (1986). … 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 …
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, … Hauptmann, Tolstoy, and Lang. Transitioning to the English-language stage in 1920, Ben-Ami starred in Arthur Hopkin s' …
Haim Louk
… religious studies with general education, including French language classes. The curriculum encompassed Talmudic … to Ashkenazi cantorial traditions and acquired knowledge of Yiddish. After four years, he returned to Morocco and …
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 … tradition, honoring the old eastern-Ashkenazi musical language. In all probability, Beregovski’s reservations hint …