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A notated version of a wordless Hasidic niggun, melody, attributed to Shneur Zalman of Liady, the founder of Chabad Hasidism.
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Shneur Zalman of Liady
Places:
Lyady, Russian Empire (Lyady, Belarus)
Date:
ca. 1800
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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…
Contributor:
Maurycy Trębacz
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1900
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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…
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Unknown
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1905
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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…
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Jack Glogau, Joe McCarthy, Al Piantadosi
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1914