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An Old Faith in the New World: a Portrait of Shearith Israel, 1654-1954
… the liturgical music of the Spanish-Portuguese community of New York City, pp.145-151 … 101 … 101 … 1 … 37753 … 595 … New York … Columbia University Press … … 1955 … Liturgy … …
Aaron Copland
… Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents of Lithuanian Jewish descent. In 1917 he … and Germany, meeting composers and exposing himself to new music. Copland continued his studies with Boulanger long …
Goldfaden's Legacy: The Origins of Yiddish Theater
… local Jewish population, as well as the influence of the New York Yiddish Theater on popular American culture. The film … productions, specifically the activity of the Folksbiene in New York, Yiddishpiel in Tel Aviv, and the Avram Goldfaden …
Morris Rosenfeld
… a diamond cutter and in London as a tailor, he emigrated to New York in 1886, where he would also work as a tailor. … with the editorial staff of several leading Jewish newspapers. In 1904 he started publishing a weekly entitled …
Richard Tucker
… Richard Tucker was born in New York, U.S.A. In addition to his work as Hazzan, he was a …
Alter Yehiel Karniol
… for a short while to work at the Ohab Zedek Synagogue in New York , returning to Russia to take a position of chief … the onslaught of pogroms in 1905, Karniol left Odessa for New York , where he was re-hired at the Ohab Zedek …
Voices of the People: The Story of Yiddish Folksong
… The original book was published by.... New York, 1963. (from the back cover of the book:) The seminal … the Jewish experience. Noted scholar Mark Slobin provides a new foreword that includes a biographical sketch of Rubin …
James W. McKinnon
… was active as a church organist and choir director in New York throughout his life. He began teaching at State University of New York, Buffalo in 1967, where he stayed until 1989, …
Mordechai Yardeni (Motl Sherman)
… As a writer, Sherman made his debut writing in 1929 at the newspaper ' Forverts' . At the same time, the Philadelphia newspaper ' Yiddishe Welt' began to publish his musical and … he lived for another 4 years. In 1936 he returned to New York, where he performed in concerts and on the radio as an …
New Directions in the Music of the Sephardic Jews
… … Modern Jews and their Musical Agendas … 38822 … 61-77 … New York … … 1993 … Music … Sephardi … Sephardi … Edwin Seroussi … New Directions in the Music of the Sephardic Jews …