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Joseph Papernikoff
… he returned to Warsaw. At the age of 16, he began to write songs in Yiddish. His debut song, 'Dos Feld' ('The Field'), was … he joined the Poalei Zion Left Party, which saw modern Yiddish literature as a central part of Jewish identity. …
Israel Alter
… Alter composed cantorial works and musical settings to Yiddish poems. His collections of transcriptions of nusach … . Videoclip of Alter's Chazi Kadish . See here a list of songs written or composed by Alter. (the digital library of … Composers … Cantors - Hazzanim … German Synagogue … Tenor … Yiddish songs … Ashkenazi liturgical music … American …
Moses Beregovski
… Yidishe Folkslider , Beregovski’s second volume devoted to Yiddish folk song was complete and set to print in 1938 but … art music composition and research of Jewish folk songs and melodies. In his introduction, Beregovski argues … the artistic contribution of secular folklore, such as love songs and lullabies, and is critical of claims that secular …
Gila Flam
… of Music, 1988. Her thesis: Singing for Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940–45 was published by the … Jewish National and University Library. Research interests: Yiddish folk song with emphasis on the Holocaust period. … the JMRC in the preparation of the scholarly edition of the Yiddish songs collection of M. Beregovski. Picture courtesy …
Andre Hajdu
… piano based on traditional pieces of Ashkenazi hazzanut and Yiddish songs, performed by cantor Asher Hainovitz with Hajdu on the …
Irene Heskes
… research included the compilation of a large collection of Yiddish theater music. She published many articles and books … , Jews in Music , The Resource Book of Jewish Music , Yiddish-American Popular Songs, 1895–1950 , and Passport to Jewish Music: Its …
Judah Loeb [Yehude-Leyb] Cahan
… York in 1904, and continued collecting folklore among the Yiddish-speaking Jews of New York. In 1925, Cahan helped … planned to publish all of his works (collections of folk songs and folktales, and theoretical works), but only the …
Mordecai Gebirtig
… Gebirtig gained his fame as a Yiddish bard, both composing the lyrics and melodies for his songs. His work became popular throughout the Diaspora long … Hebrew translation in the collection Ha-Ayarah Bo’eret. … Yiddish poet … 0 … Mordecai Gebirtig …
Nikolai Kaufman
… and singing psalms from holy books. He loved to sing old songs in Yiddish…but his children never learned them. Only my mother … occasion (religious or secular). The songs are in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and Bulgaria. Also the extensive …
Eleanor Gordon Mlotek
… 'Chana' Gordon) was born on April 9, 1922, in New York in a Yiddish-speaking family. She attended the Yiddish High School of the Sholem Aleichem Folks Institute, … survivor she had met the previous summer playing Yiddish songs on a mandolin at Rockaway Beach in New York but who …