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A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… Month to this text, that was already featured is previous years, in order to analyze two new recordings, one Moroccan …
Joseph Shlisky
… come to assume choirmaster duties there. Shlisky’s early years in Toronto were not easy. The cantor, who Shlisky … had emigrated to Toronto. In about 1910, at only 16 or 17 years of age, Shlisky married Minnie Rinzler, a … (TCM), run by her friend Dr. Augustus S. Vogt. During his years at the TCM, Shlisky either continued to perform or …

Contemporary American Jewish Music
… in the contemporary klezmer movement over the past thirty years, as well as an examination of their artistic output, I … Tarras that has taken place over the past decade. In recent years, the emphasis has been looking at the same time toward …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… Levin for his gracious additions to the notes he wrote many years ago for the Milken Archive companion. My thanks go … with tears in their eyes.” As early as 1914, twenty-two years after Edlestadt died, Reyzen’s younger brother and … Jewish Sound “Piramidn” was commercially recorded in the 1960s by the noted Jewish singer Sidor Belarsky (1898-1975) …

Vals (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Joseph Achron
… short by his draft into the Russian Army in 1916. In the years after World War I, Achron toured extensively as a … was granted the Mikhail Palace Prize. The following three years, he spent mostly in Berlin and gave concerts in … St. Petersburg “Society of Jewish Folk Music” founded three years earlier by Joel Engel, Solomon Rosowsky, Michail …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… the headiness of this active and (now) fabled era: in forty years of analyzing the melodic lines of two clarinetists, in … Although I have valued Rubin as a colleague for over twenty years, and have never picked up a clarinet, his book gave me …