Portrait of the Singer Jenny Lind (the Swedish Nightingale)
1846
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Music and Opera in Jewish Culture
1750–1880
One of the most striking changes in European Jewish culture toward the later eighteenth century was marked by the entry of Jews into art music, opera houses, and the stage.
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