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Recently a friend of mine, who is a member of the Workmen’s Circle Chorus, visited, bringing with her the…
Jankiel’s Concert was inspired by a scene from Pan Tadeusz, Adam Mickiewicz’s 1834 epic poem, considered the national poem of Poland. The character of Jankiel, the Jewish innkeeper, is the most…
The lack of a Hebrew songbook for Jewish schools in the East is known and felt by all Hebrew teachers generally and music teachers, in particular. Although several collections have been…
It is the duty of all Jews in New York and the vicinity to come to the People’s Theater on Thanksgiving—matinee and evening—as well as every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to…
The songs that are found in the following collection are genuine folk songs: folk songs in the fullest sense of the word. These songs are now being published for the first time. After having wandered…
This bilingual Yiddish-English cover of a program for a variety show at Irving Music Hall on New York City’s Lower East Side advertises “high class Jewish vaudeville” and bills itself as “the finest…
A systematic collection of the traditional songs of Oriental Jews is of great importance, both for the elucidation of the vocal music used in synagogues and for the study of the origins of…
We are becoming so accustomed to the remarkable enterprise of the authorities of the Temple, East End Jewry’s playhouse in Commercial Road, that we cease to wonder at anything they now attempt in…
The first issue that should have occurred to a European-born, reality-sensitive composer upon immigration to the Land of Israel is: Is the musical…
Sheet music for “At the Yiddish Wedding Jubilee,” a song popularized by Sophie Tucker (ca. 1884–1966). Born Sophia Kalish in Tulchyn (today in Ukraine), Sophie Tucker immigrated to the United States…
