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Israel Rabinovitch
… Born in Byten, Russia, acquired his first musical knowledge from home and …
Moshe Rudinow
… of Odessa and Kherson. While working there, he translated Russian songs into Hebrew and Yiddish, and performed the …
Max Weinreich
… Max Weinreich was a Russian Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics … Eastern Europe . … Yiddish linguist … Yiddish … Languages … Russia … Max Weinreich …
Herman Svet
… was born January 1, 1893, in Shpole (Kiev province of the Russian Empire, now Ukraine). His father, Menachem Mendel … Berlin. In 1917 he began writing about music for various Russian-language periodicals in Kiev and later switched to … Yiddish daily newspaper Di naye tsayt (The new times) in Russian, and someone on the editorial board would translate …
Avraham Shlonsky
… Avraham Shlonsky was an Israeli poet and editor, born in the Russian Empire. Full biography at Wikipedia. … Israeli poet …
Ray Musiker
… 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 …
Shmuel Zanvel Pipe
… about Napoleon and the Jews, Yiddish songs of Soviet Russia and sources of folk songs collected by Y. L. Peretz. …
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 …
Israel Adler
… was directed during the Soviet period by the distinguished Russian Jewish musicologist Moise Beregovski. Located at the …
Abraham Baer
… and teacher in several communities throughout western Prussia before settling as a cantor at the Goteborg Synagogue …