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These program notes were prepared for the Radical New Jewish music performances which were part of the ART PROJEKT Festival held in Munich in September of 1992.
American New Music has always been…
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John Zorn, Marc Ribot
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New York, United States of America
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1992
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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…
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Society for Jewish Folk Music
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Moscow, Russian Empire
(Moscow, Russia)
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1913
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
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1916
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Vilna Troupe, Alter-Sholem Kacyzne
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1917
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Deeply respected Niger,
I ask you to endure me in Russian.
I want to express to you my happiness that we are approaching the time of the new Jewish book, a book created with love towards [the thing]…
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El Lissitzky
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Moscow, Russian Empire
(Moscow, Russia)
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1918
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Camille Pissarro
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Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
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1903
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[The writings of the nineteenth-century maskilic writers] Perets Smolenskin and Yitsḥok Erter opened cracks in the faith of Hasidic young men [like Asch himself]. Their life of [Talmud] study without…
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Sholem Asch
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1915
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Ira Jan
It is my task to introduce to the readers of Múlt és Jövő (Past and Future) to an extraordinary Jewish woman, and it is hard to tell whether she is a greater writer or artist. Those who say…
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Ira Jan
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire
(Budapest, Hungary)
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1914
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The New York Yiddish Theater opened its London season that autumn with what the drama critic of our building, a watchmaker named Shmulik, described as a daring translation of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing…
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Emanuel Litvinoff
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London, United Kingdom
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1972
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Yehudah Pen
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Vitebsk, Russian Empire
(Vitebsk, Belarus)
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1914