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Bazetsens (LKT)
… the bride is crying and says goodbye to her youth and her parents... and the violin cries and breaks her …
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
Asher Shimon Mizrahi was born in the old city of Jerusalem in 1890 to father Yitzhak…
Karev Yom
… deeply emotional attachment to the formative period of his youth in Tel Aviv, he had, as is well documented, an …
Hora (LKT)
… Europe, especially in Hungary, Moravia, and Rumania, Jewish youths would assemble on Saturday afternoons for dancing …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity. New York: Routledge, 2017…
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… well written it down from his own personal memory (in his youth he was cantor in Germany). Notice also that Idelsohn …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… songbook in America well into the 1960s. It appears in Youth Movement songbooks (such as “The Judean Songster” from …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
The passing of the founder of the Yiddish theater spawned a touching emotional response…
Pnina Salzman
“The first lady of the piano in Israel,' and, 'She is considered the first Israel-born…
Israel Adler
Israel Adler was born in Berlin in 1925 and immigrated to Palestine with his parents at…