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Joseph Shlisky
… of the local synagogue. A cantor from a neighboring village heard the boy, aged somewhere between seven and 14, and decided he needed … with geography beyond the immediate surroundings of his village, disembarked at Union Station after a 14-day sea voyage …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… as mentioned, the founder of the Jewish theatre in the language of exile [galut]. Now, after thirty years [since its … the essence [of theatre], that is its content; the same stage serves two purposes, a [play] of comedy and rowdiness, … course of a person’s spirit as a person! --Because the stage was not invented for comedy only but also for tragedy …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… according to Greek interests. Rather than returning the damaged property to its former owners, properties were … own cultural traditions and speaking in their own languages.” 5 The Jews that were expelled from Spain and Portugal … traditions, musical forms and the Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino. The Jewish musical life that developed in …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… format as a PDF download here , and at the bottom of the page. In the present HTML version the table has been … here to English. Both were reprinted in their original language in Idelsohn’s memorial volume, Yuval 5 (1986). These two … document that we are publishing in the Idelsohn Project page in this website, the memoire of Idelsohn's daughter …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukkah Songs
… fuses different styles such as klezmer inspired musical passages intermingled with a jazz-oriented trumpet playing. …
Mordekhai Zeira
… In 1929 Zeira joined the H artom Theater, which only staged one show. In the Theater, Zeira worked as an actor, composer, piano accompanier, stage worker, decorator, and repairperson. For this theater he … Shimshon' (Eng. The Shimshon Foxes). Zeira took the page, changed a few words, and composed a melody in which he …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… research project, Edwin Seroussi and myself have been engaged in a multi-year survey of existing and new archival … eldest child. This document, written on a few pages detached from a pink paper pad, offers the reader a … I was surprised to hear them speaking in the Hebrew language and what amazed me even more was hearing the servant …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… the origin of their Hebrew pronunciation and musical heritage as dating back to the first century c.e. He argued that … to implant within me the genuine Jewish piety. At the age of 12 years, I was sent to Lithuanian jeshivas, where I … rcommended me to the Board of Guardians and secured my passage home. Upon Zangwill’s question, how can I return to …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… for Hatikvah online, you were surely exposed to a barrage of factual and fictional information that, in the Internet Age, circulates virally in diverse variants, dosages and combinations ad nauseam . [1] These writings and …