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Manfred Lemm
… he founded the Manfred Lemm Ensemble and performed mainly Yiddish song. Lemm was one of the organizers of the European Yiddish Festival that took place in Zurich, Krakow, and … … German singer and musician engaged in the revival of Yiddish music … Manfred Lemm …
Molly Picon
… at the Jewish Women's Archive website: click here … Yiddish actress & vocalist … Molly Picon …
Eliezer Mordecai Ben Isaac Gerovich
… 1897 and 1904. Additional biography of Gerovich exists in Yiddish, in Elias Zaludowski's 'Ḳulṭur-ṭreger fun der …
Abraham Goldfaden
… Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro Konstantinov, Ukraine. In … early Hebrew poems in 1862 in Ha-Meliz , and several of his Yiddish poems in Kol Mevasser , shortly thereafter. In 1865 … Zizim u-Ferahim , and in 1965 an additional booklet of Yiddish songs, Dos Yudele . In 1875, he left his teaching …
Abigail Wood
… of Music, University of Haifa. Completed her PhD on Yiddish song in contemporary North America at Cambridge … In 2013 her book ''And we're all brothers': Singing in Yiddish in contemporary North America' has been published. … Current research interests include contemporary klezmer and Yiddish song, music in Jewish-Christian relations and music …
Michael Lukin
… associate, specializing in the traditional culture of Yiddish speakers. His recent publications, featured in … Studies in Jewish Folklore , and Shofar , explore Yiddish folk songs and Hasidic nigunim through … aspects of Eastern Ashkenazi traditional culture, such as Yiddish carnivalesque, folk theater melodies, cantorial …
Ya'akov Orland
… meter and rhyme, and a gifted translator from English and Yiddish. His achievements earned him numerous awards, …
Joseph Achron
… teaching and performing, and began to write music for the Yiddish Theater. In 1932 he was commissioned to compose … music ensembles and wrote music for Maurice Schwarz’s Yiddish Art Theatre and for synagogue services. In New York …
Samuel Alman
… also wrote and published several arrangements of popular Yiddish folk songs. … Composer of Synagogue and Secular …
Sholom Secunda
… charge $100 for a Shabbat service. Sholom got his start in Yiddish theater shortly after arriving to New York City. … Lower East Side. It was then that he came into contact with Yiddish Theater star David Kessler. After his soprano voice … full-time study in 1914. Sholom's first engagement in a Yiddish Theater production was as an extra in Max Gabel 's …