Gustav Mahler was born in Kalischt, Bohemia but spent most of his childhood in Iglau,…

Documenting and Performing Ashkenazi Music Chair: James Loeffler Yelena Irzabekova,…

… a range of conflicting attitudes towards his Jewish minority status that transformed his view of what Jewishness … inspire him to help deserving members of a vulnerable minority group facing terrible discrimination gain admission … to Russian music as authentic Russians but only as a minority people of the Russian ( Rossisskii ) Empire. Glinka …

Kaddish is one of the most important and central parts of the Jewish liturgy. Most of it…

Born in Vilna to a poor family and educated at that city’s Talmud Torah, Shmerke…

* This entry is a summarized version of the full artice about Israeli folksongs by…

Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro…