… musical and cultural activity was officially promoted by Nazi officials. As such, he was assigned to the …

… a concert diploma, with distinction. He lives in Berlin (Germany). He has recorded nearly forty CDs. Jascha Nemtsov’s … to works by Jewish composers who were persecuted by the Nazis. He is further specialized in Jewish artistic music of …

… production, working with diesel motors imported from Germany. He assiduously expanded his linguistic abilities, … in their country until the end of the war. Gradually the Nazis imposed a series of ‘Jewish laws’, restricting …

… after the integration of Czech lands into the Third Reich, Nazi officials closed all institutions of higher education … activities were sponsored, albeit closely scrutinized, by Nazi officials in Theresienstadt. As part of his role as …

… house “Jibneh,” taught violin and toured throughout Germany and abroad ( Latvia , Austria , Italy and Egypt ). … knew from his previous sojourn in Berlin and who had fled Nazi Germany. Most importantly, Achron became friendly with …

… as he experienced it across the Baltic region, urban Germany, Ottoman and early British Palestine, Lithuanian … . Shoshanah Idelsohn was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1905 and moved to Palestine with her father, … spoken language in opposition to the orphanage of the Ashkenazi community run by the Haredi community where Yiddish was …

… 1850s, decades after this practice was well established in Germany, but almost half a century before the first … Karnes discusses Melngailis’s views during the Nazi occupation of the Baltic States. He quotes Melngailis’s … Jewish cowboys (Gottlieb 2004, 64). Also Yemenite-Ashkenazi intermarriages in Israel during the 1930s and through …

… Niggun ‘Akedah  is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac, … the great significance of the ‘Akedah narrative in Ashkenazi culture, as expressed through the poems that were sung … emerged during the tenth century in present day southern Germany and northern France. However, it also acquired two …