… Source: 'Avram Sliep ' at Yiddish Music Website (in Russian).  … Conductor & music educator … 0 … Vilna … Ghetto …

Mainly on Leone de Sommi and Salamone Rossi. Reprinted in Leone de’Sommi and the…

… p. 226 (#221) .  “I am glad to dance a polka.” [Minsk, Russia, pre-World War II]. Cahan 1957, p. 231, (#235) .  … [[Byalitse, near Vilna, Lithuania, pre-World War II; Minsk, Russia, pre-World War II]. Cahan 1957, p. 491, (#235-36) .  …

Giovanni Maria, an excellent flutist, was part of a small group of Jewish musicians in…

… wesolo , mazur and polonez  [which were] big in the ‘30s.” [Russia and Poland]. Alpert 1996a, p. 16-17 .  “ ‘A … elements... one listens to the pining tones of the Little-Russian kobzar , as he accompanies his melancholy duma, or …

… weddings. His parents immigrants to America from Northern Russia. From his parents, Ray inhererited a love of Eastern European Jewish music from Russia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. Ray plays …

… of 1912, he [ Joel Engel ] tells of how a non-Jew (a Russian or Moldavian) was the head of the kelzmer band in …

… Bialik and composed by Platon G. Brounoff  (Elizavetgrad, Russia 1869 – New York, 1924). Bialik's poem was first …

… finding is well known. Probably the source of the name is Russian or Ukrainian and its meaning ‘the family dance’ -- …