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Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… with both internal traditions and external influences—from Polish and Russian elites, as well as from Ukrainian peasant … eastern Europe’s Hasidim into two camps: Russian and Polish. The centuries-long cultural, economic, and political … of three Yiddish dialects (Lithuanian Yiddish in the North, Polish and Ukrainian Yiddish in the South), intensified, …
Comedian Harmonists
Feature. 126 min. German with Engl. subt.
Director: J. Vilsmaier
Life in Berlin in…
Jennie Goldstein
Yiddish theater star Jennie Goldstein was born in New York in 1896. She began acting at…
Michael Lukin
A research associate, specializing in the traditional culture of Yiddish speakers.…
Di Kishefmakerin (The Sorceress)
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This entry is part of an online exhibit entitled: '…
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… tune (seven variants) preferred by the communities of the “Polish rite” (East of the Elbe and Moldau river) (see image … in agreement in detail. Four forms [of the melody], two Polish and two German, are presented by [Abraham] Baer … [sic]), Italian, German (that used by Marcello), and Polish—are given in the accompanying transcription [see …
Kozak (LKT)
… “‘...Let’s dance the kozak ;’... The melody is that of a ‘Polish mazurka.'” [Galicia, 1920s-30s]. Pipe 1971a, pp. 161 …
Kozatshok (LKT)
… for Jews within a limited geographical region (such as the Polish mazurka , Ruthenian kolomeyka and Ukrainian kozachok …