… Belarus, and his exposure to the Haskalah and modern German culture that spread to the new Jewish settlements of … acquainted with a vast array of popular and traditional Yiddish songs, as well as, later on, the new “rebirth” songs … Poland and Belarus (formerly Brest-Litovsk,Brisk De-Lita in Yiddish).  However, Geshuri’s life, as those of many young …

Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau, Germany in 1900. His father was a cantor and his…

… his piyyutim to be sung are borrowed from the musical culture of the Sephardi Jews of Spain (tunes of … or Arabic maqamat and melodies of the surrounding musical cultures became embedded in the Sephardi liturgical and … Baqqashot is the result of developments in the musical culture of the Middle East in general, and in Jerusalem in …

… which were usually adopted from the surrounding non-Jewish cultures. The adoption of marches by Hasidim is part of the … military marches (2/4 and 6/8), and popular pieces from the Yiddish theatre, often in fox-trot, waltz, tango, and even …

… melody, a zemer for the Sabbath, a Hassidic niggun and a Yiddish folksong. In addition, some Ashkenazi tunes were … Jew.' [7] The melody of 'Atah  Ehad' was incorporated in a Yiddish art song titled 'Shabbes beim Shalosh S'udos' …

… teaching and performing, and began to write music for the Yiddish Theater. In 1932 he was commissioned to compose … music ensembles and wrote music for Maurice Schwarz’s Yiddish Art Theatre and for synagogue services. In New York …

… far beyond this constricting narrative to recover Jewish culture, economics, politics, and society. Yet something of … 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 …

… that was later on replaced by the Jewish-German dialect [Yiddish] in its Kurlandian variant. Although, Libau was a modern city with German culture, my father picked for me a Lithuanian teacher in a … i.e. the “other” Ashkenazi Jews. See Jacobs, Neil G.  Yiddish: A Linguistic Introduction . Cambridge: Cambridge …

… and folk song revivalist. Music reviewers stresses his Yiddish or international repertoire. Bikel made a career out … rather than from the emerging triumphalist Israeli Hebrew culture. The song belongs to the Ashkenazi repertoire for …