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Precisely in the case of a new and difficult question like “Jewish folk-music,” [ . . . ] it is necessary to establish as much as possible [its] specific, objective characteristics . . . You make fun…
I have often been asked, and still am asked, whether I know from my frequent conversations with Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy about his attitudes toward the Jews. I am asked whether I spoke with him on…
Speech delivered at the May meeting of agitators in Vilna in 1895.
Dear comrades!
Today, every group of the fighting proletariat has marked successes in its activities. It will be most appropriate to…
Gentlemen! Although I do not for a minute doubt that the majority of those present here know of the great worldwide workers’ holiday of “May 1st,” I nevertheless do not consider it redundant to remind…
What do we call folk songs? Of course, these are the songs sung by the people. The songs can either come from unknown authors of the ancient, forgotten past . . . or these can be recently written…
The idea of publishing a complete History of the Jews in Russia scarcely calls for extensive explanations or justifications. Russian Jewry, which quantitatively represents the most significant…
Many skeptics have denied the existence of Jewish music. Some lump it together with Oriental music; others refuse to admit its independence a priori, by virtue of the nomadic fate of the Jews, who…
Mr. Engel concludes that the music to my songs is not folk, because, in his opinion, it includes the rhythms of waltz music and mazurkas, and these dance rhythms are used even in the cases where I…
As socialists, we strive to overthrow the existing order, which is based on economic and political slavery, and to create on its ruins that collectivized state which alone can guarantee the full and…