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Doubly Tainted, Doubly Talented: The Jewish Poet Sara Copio (d. 1641) as a Heroic Singer
… Depicts the challenges and successes of a woman musician living in … … Pendragon Press … … 1996 … Seventeenth (17th) Century … Singer … Don Harrán … Irene Alm … Alyson McLamore … Colleen Reardon … Doubly Tainted, Doubly …
Musik Macht Frei: Choral Music Composed and Performed in the Nazi Concentration Camps, 1938-44
… Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: … Bibliographies Documents the formation and use of prisoner choirs in concentration camps and ghettos, with particular focus on the singers in Theresienstadt. Includes transcriptions of …
Embrace me
… Documentary. The film follows Jo Amar, a liturgical poet, singer and composer, a unique personality who reflects the beauty of North African Jewry. In …
The Mystery of Aris San
… 80 min. Hebrew with English subt. A journey into the mysterious life of Aris San, the Greek (non-Jewish) singer who arrived in Israel as a young man in 1957 and … … … 2007 … Israel … Popular music … Greece … Pop … Popular songs … Greek … Documentary … Years 1960s … The Mystery of …
The Cantor's Son - Dem Khazns Zindl
… uncredited) This Yiddish feature film musical drama marks the screen debut of singer and cantor Moishe Oysher. Shot in Pennsylvania near … Feature … Oysher, Moyshe … Eastern Ashkenazi … The Cantor's Son - Dem Khazns Zindl …
The Jazz Singer
… Feature. 89 min. The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized … its Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, the movie stars Al Jolson, who performs six songs. Directed by Alan Crosland, it … calling himself Jack Robin, he has become a talented jazz singer. He attempts to build a career as an entertainer, but …
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman: Song of Autumn - Harbstlid
… with English subt., a film by Josh Waletzky produced by the League for Yiddish No. 2 in the film series: 'Worlds … Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman is a renown yiddish poet, songwriter and singer. … 101 … 101 … 9 … 35756 … USA … League for Yiddish … …
The Comedian Harmonists - Documentary
… Documentary. 191 min. Dir./ Prod.: Eberhard Fechner The Comedian Harmonists was a men's vocal group started in … orders, the group was forced to break up. Three of the singers, of 'Jewish origin', were exiled from Germany. They … lives after the Comedian Harmonists paled in comparison to the dramas, the deceits and the conflicts of their …
Hava Nagila--Come Let Us Be Joyous
… & Beyond,' prepared by Eva Heinstein with help from the JMRC staff. To view the exhibit in its entirety click on … the link above. During and immediately after WWII, the folksong Hava Nagila began to gain popularity worldwide. In … Sisters … 35577 … Roulette Records … SR-25060 … … 1958 … Singers … Yiddish … Yiddish songs … Singer … Singing … Radio …
Avraham Soltes
… to parents who recently arrived from Eastern Europe. His father, Mordechai Soltes had earned a Ph.D. in education, from … This applied to his accomplishments as a guitar-playing singer of Italian love- songs, Ladino prayer- songs, American folksongs, Yiddish …