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Sholom Secunda
Sholom Secunda was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson…
Elio Piattelli
Biography by Pasquale Troia
Choirmaster of the Tempio Maggiore (Great Synagogue) in…
Book Review: Music’s Making - The Poetry of Music; The Music of Poetry
Cherlin M., Music’s making: The Poetry of Music, the Music of Poetry. SUNY Press,…
Nahum Heiman
Natan Yonatan, Nahum Heiman's friend and writing partner says about his friend (in the…

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… appears as a piyyut in countless manuscript collections of sacred songs, sometimes as “piyyut na’eh”, and well as in … it entered Israel Davidson’s canonical catalogue of Hebrew sacred poetry, Otzar ha-shirah ve-ha-piyyut (New York 1929, … Many of these performances desecrate the secular sacredness of the national anthem, when fans use the time of …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
This document, in the form of a synoptic table, incorporates three versions of Idelsohn’…
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
The passing of the founder of the Yiddish theater spawned a touching emotional response…