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Tish
In Yiddish, Tish means table. In the Hasidic movement, the Tish is the public feast of…
Mordekhai Hershman
Mordekhai (Mordecai; Mordkhe) Hershman was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov…
Moshe Cordova
Moshe Cordova
Composer, singer, ‘ud and piano player Moshe Cordova (b. Edirne,…
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
The passing of the founder of the Yiddish theater spawned a touching emotional response…
Léibele Schwartz
Schwartz was born in Brod, Poland, on March 22, 1928 as Yehudah Leib Kirzner. He began…
Society for Jewish Folk Music
Violins, Voice and Jews
In the spring of 1897, on the eve of the Russian Orthodox…
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture 3:9-27. Scherman, Nosson (ed.). 1979. Zemiroth: Sabbath Songs with Additional … York: Mesorah Publications. (Hebrew and English) Scherman, Nosson, et al. (eds.). 1996. The Complete Artscroll …
