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Postcards, such as this image of the actress as Cleopatra, advertised Sarah Bernhardt’s celebrated performances for global audiences. Born Henriette-Rosine Bernard to a Jewish courtesan of Dutch…
For the critic of the future remains the problem of estimating to what degree residence in America influenced the art of Charles Martin Loeffler and of Leo Ornstein. Patent enough to our own day is…
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…
Very little is known about the actor Siegfried Berisch (1877–1933). He started out performing in the cabaret and German Jewish theater scenes in Berlin and Vienna. Berisch’s first major role was in Sc…
Cover of sheet music for “Do Not Say Goodbye” from the Marx Brothers’ musical comedy Home Again.
In three acts by the famous author Yitsḥak Katzenelson.Karmel, a rich Jewish timber merchant Mr. KharazYoḥanan, his son Mr. MikhaleskoBill, a gypsy captain Mr. LandauTarta, an old gypsy…