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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel wrote numerous songs, piano compositions, cantatas, and other musical works, which were not published in her lifetime. The illustration on this hand-written manuscript…
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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1841
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“Shir ha-ma‘alot (Song of Ascents),” Psalm 126, is customarily recited or sung before the Grace After Meals on the Sabbath and festivals. There are many different tunes for the song. A Yiddish…
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Michael Joseph Guzikov
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Lyady, Russian Empire (Lyady, Belarus)
Date:
1827
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Ida Rubinstein, volunteering as a nurse in France during World War I, in a uniform specially designed for her by Leon Bakst. Dancer, actress, and patron of the arts Ida Rubinstein was born into a…
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Maurice-Louis Branger
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Paris, France
Date:
1914
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A notated version of a wordless Hasidic niggun, melody, attributed to Shneur Zalman of Liady, the founder of Chabad Hasidism.
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Shneur Zalman of Liady
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Lyady, Russian Empire (Lyady, Belarus)
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ca. 1800
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The music for “Se’u She‘arim (Lift Up Your Heads, O Gates)” resembles the choral marches found in grand opera. The words are from Psalm 24: O gates, lift up your heads! Up high, you everlasting doors…
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Samuel Naumbourg
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Paris, France
Date:
1847
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Salamone de Rossi (1570–1630), composer, singer, violinist, and musician in the Gonzaga court in Mantua, is best known for his introduction of polyphony into synagogue music. Composer Samuel Naumbourg…
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Samuel Naumbourg, Salamone de Rossi
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Paris, France
Date:
1876
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The first edition of Baal T’fillah was published in 1871. A compendium of over 1,500 Jewish traditional melodies, according to the traditions of German, Polish, and Portuguese (Sephardic) Jews, the…
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Abraham Baer
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Gothenburg, United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway (Göteborg, Sweden)
Date:
1877
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This poster was created for Komar and Melamid’s We Buy and Sell Souls, a conceptual art project the Soviet artists launched soon after their emigration to the United States. They formed a corporation…
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Vitaly Komar, Vitaly Komar
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1979
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A Portuguese-language advertisement for February 5–6, 1915, performances in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, of the Grande Companhia Israelita’s adaptation of Tolstoy’s novella The Kreuzer Sonata.
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Theatro Carlos Gomes
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date:
1915
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The cover of this Yiddish-language program is for a performance of Di tsvey Kuni Lemels (Two Kuni Lemels) at Goldfaden’s Yiddish Theater. The image features two dancing men in Hasidic attire. The play…
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Abraham Goldfaden
Date:
1887