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The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire
… 'No image of prerevolutionary Russian Jewish life is more iconic than the fiddler on the roof. But in the half century before 1917, Jewish musicians were actually descending from their shtetl roofs … and burgeoning Jewish nationalism, how and why did Russian music become the gateway to modern Jewish identity? …
Joseph Achron (On His 50th Birthday) (1936)
… Article written in Jerusalem Describes the origin of Jewish musical nationalism, the international emigration of Russian-Jewish composers, and praises individual works by …
Selected writings and lectures of Joseph Yasser : an annotated bibliography compiled by Albert Weisser.
… and lectures, with emphasis on subjects related to Jewish music. Each bibliographical item includes publication … about the item. … 1 … 34290 … New York … Jewish liturgical music society of America … … 1970 … Research … Modality … Bibliography … Russia … Harmony … Modality … Tonality … Russian music … Albert Weisser … Selected writings and …
Albert Weisser
… Albert Weisser was Born in New York City of Russian-Jewish parentage. He attended high school in Queens … Upon graduating in 1948, he entered the master's program in musicology. Under the guidance of Curt Sachs , he wrote his thesis on 'The Jewish National Music in Russia', which was later published as The Modern …
Mordechai Yardeni (Motl Sherman)
… in 1906 in the town of Slovechno (Volyn province of the Russian Empire, now Ukraine). His father, Chaim Sherman, was … yeshiva Mishkan Israel. Later he enrolled in The School of Music and Drama. As a writer, Sherman made his debut writing … newspaper ' Yiddishe Welt' began to publish his musical and theatrical reviews. In February 1930, at the …
Joseph Yasser
… Jewish music researcher & collector. Born in Lodz, Poland. Studied … synagogues and was one of the founders of the American Musicological Society. His research deals with theories of tonality, Russian music, and Jewish music (Biblical instruments, …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … 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 …
David Nowakowsky
… concerts comprised of his own liturgical and paraliturgical music, with instrumental accompaniment. As a result of this … his work at the Brody Synagogue, Nowakowsky also taught music at several local music schools, later becoming a … continue to be used by many hazzanim and choirmasters. … Russian synagogue choirmaster, composer & teacher … Hazan, …
Abraham Goldfaden
… was in circulation for approximately six months before the Russian government banned its continued publication. … his songs, as well as other popular Jewish and secular music. The initial performances of these musical theater … theater continued to grow in scope until 1883 when the Russian government banned performances in Yiddish. As a …
Joseph Achron
… was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania . His musical genius became evident early on and at the age of … tenure there was cut short by his draft into the Russian Army in 1916. In the years after World War I, Achron … a grant from the Leonid Nevzin Center for the Research of Russian and European Jewry. Joseph (Yussl) Achron, Jewish …