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Pinchas Borenstein
… which was then part of the Kingdom of Poland under the Russian Empire (now Poland). He grew up in a religious …
"Yashqef elohim mime'on qodsho" (God will look down from His holy dwelling)
Nashid by Yosef ben Israel signed Yehosef. The poem calls for the Lord to take vengeance…
Eliakum Zunser
… of poverty and intolerable and vicious harassment by the Russians, he wandered from city to city and at one time was … his fame grew rapidly throughout Lithuania and in northern Russia, and he became the yardstick by which all members of …

Tradition and Innovation in Jewish Music of the Later Renaissance
Especially on Salamone Rossi, 'Ha-Shirim asher li-Shlomo'.
Reprinted in Essential…
"Se'i yona veshim'ini" (Go, Dove, and hear Me)
This is a shira for any occasion, with a tawshiḥ. It is attributed both to David ben…

Hashirim Asher li-Shelomoh : Hashirim asher Lish’lomo (the songs of Solomon)
Thirty-three Psalms, songs, hymns... for 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 voices. Hebrew text in…

בעקבות "המלחין היהודי הדגול": עיון מחודש בדמותו ויצירתו של סאלאמונה רוסי
:על Don Harrán, 'Salamone Rossi; Jewish Musician in Late Renaissance Mantua' (1999)
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
… and translation of all the texts into English, Hebrew and Russian as well as biographical information about the poets. …
Joseph Papernikoff
… was born in the late 1990s (1897 or 1899) in the Russian city of Warsaw, Poland. He was the son of Malka nee … education in the 'cheder', and then studied in a Russian Real Gymnasium. Thanks to his voice, a beautiful … as well as a collection of translations of the poems of the Russian poet Sergei Essenin (1933). While his poems, which …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… as “folk melody.” Indeed, the tune recalls those of Russian folksongs. However, it has not been located, thus … the author of “Piramidn,” soon became familiar in Russia, as Avrom Reyzen , another socialist Yiddish poet … Europe, “Der arbeter.” The popularity of “Piramidn” in the Russian Empire and later on in the Soviet Union (where …