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for Aaron Lebedeff (1873–1960), performer on the Yiddish stage
Bewildering clarity of tongues:
names you never heard, food
you never ate, a wild dance
you never learned, light hanging
in the sky…
Esteemed Friend and Editor:
Recently a friend of mine, who is a member of the Workmen’s Circle Chorus, visited, bringing with her the…
A notated version of a wordless Hasidic niggun, melody, attributed to Shneur Zalman of Liady, the founder of Chabad Hasidism.
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…
Dedication to My Dearly Beloved Grandfather, Reb Mendalle Mocher SephorimTo my dear grandfather, greetings!Stempenyu, my first long novel, which I inscribe to you, is yours; not only because I have…
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…
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…
23 October. The actors convince me by their presence time and again, to my consternation, that most of what I’ve written about them so far is wrong. It is wrong because I wrote about them with…