… leader mit notes (20 songs with notes) (1938)  During the years of Nazi occupation, Slep was in the Vilna ghetto. He …

… recorded by Voice of the Turtle in 2000. In the 1950s and 1960s Israeli folk singers, some of whom were active at that …

… whom he heard it. The text and the tune I recorded a few years ago at the Phonoteque [Sound Archive] of the National … are ‘Ehad manda’i’. The tune sounds to me Oriental. A few years ago, I heard the song ‘Ehad mi yode’a’ in the Arabic … mi yode’a” in Arabic, a language she commanded, in the mid-1960s. She sings a version very close to the Baghdad one …

… so far resurfaced. Sayag was a young singer of twenty-four years when he recorded for Gramophone on July 3, 1929. Dr. …

This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…

… against Russian Jews lasted from 1903 to 1906; during these years the Secunda family experienced acute discrimination … actors and composers outside of New York for at least three years before considering their candidacy. In 1922, Sholom … lived in the Secunda home on Penn street for the first six years of their marriage. In 1928, Betty became pregnant and …

Abraham Baer was born in Wielen, Poland. He worked as a cantor and teacher in several…

… Eretz Israel:   40 Yor Papiernikov in Erets-Yisroel  ('40 years of Papernikoff in Eretz Israel'). Papernikoff has won …

… never seen this myself, only heard of it happening forty years ago from old klezmers .) In the evening the... groom’s …