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Four Melodies for Four Questions
… whose Jewish community traces its origins to Baghdadi Jewry. Sephardic melodies of this kind are also found in … renamed Ephraim Abileah (1881-1953). A Russian-born Jewish immigrant in Palestine, Abileah was a …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… those areas of Ukraine (then part of Poland and later the Russian Empire). By the nineteenth century, it had become a … Twersky (1808–1882) of Talne (Yiddish spelling: Tolne; in Russian: Talnoye); hence his nickname “Tolner.” While the … Society.” Gal-Ed: On the History and Culture of Polish Jewry 23:131–56. Kipnis, Levin. 1923. Macharozes: Zemiros …
Sholom Secunda
… Monsieur Kurich. The second large wave of Pogroms against Russian Jews lasted from 1903 to 1906; during these years … eldest son Velvel escaped to New York to avoid the Russian army mandatory draft. He was the first member of the …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… a relatively new Jewish settlement in Silesia] next to the Prussian border during [the Rebbe’s] journeys to the springs … Congress Poland, which had to be separated from the Russian volumes due to space considerations. The fifth and … in other sources. This interest in non-Ashkenazi Jewry is shown in his correspondence with Idelsohn from the …