… songs, Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yehoshua Heschel (may God avenge his blood), the Rebbe of Olkusz. Embedded in this …

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… Liadov. To the young student, they represented musical gods: “Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov, Liadov,» he wrote, «these … the legendary composer and teacher as their spiritual godfather. The very founding of the Society for Jewish Folk … in Materialy vosemnadtsatoi mezhdunarodnoi ezhegodnoi konferentsii, 495-513. [11] RGALI, fond 2954, op. 1, …

… its speech, as a Jew pours out his supplication before his God.  It weeps and begs and sighs, its voice the voice of … for another.  “Sleep, my child, sleep peacefully.  But God will avenge, because he betrayed, and swore a false … is love?”  The poem is written like a prayer, addressed to God, but in the female form, expressing the ambivalence …

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… Ishwa damek ya Mahlook” (“Give me a kiss from your mouth, God how beautiful you are”), which became very popular and …

Ehud Manor won the Israel Prize in 1998. As part of the reasons for the award, it was…