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June 1, 1918
Jewish music is the face of a frozen sphinx which, after the millennium of its antiquity, is still only on the path to discovering its secret, is only now waking to life…
Contributor:
Aleksander Krein
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Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
Date:
1918
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Dedication to My Dearly Beloved Grandfather, Reb Mendalle Mocher Sephorim
To my dear grandfather, greetings!
Stempenyu, my first long novel, which I inscribe to you, is yours; not only because I have…
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Sholem Aleichem
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Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1886
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The Marshalek.—His Duties.—The Serenade.—At The Bride’s “Main Quarters.”—The Reception at the Groom’s.—The Ritual of Seating of the Bride.—The Marshalek’s Improvisation.
The rituals and…
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Lev Levanda
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1880
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(The songs)
It frightens us so,
With our poor wares to go
And face the wide world and its scorn.
We have lived many days,
But know only the ways.
Of the villages where we were born.
(The author)
Yo…
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Pesach-Elijah Badkhn
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1871
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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
Places:
Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1913
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Mr. Engel concludes that the music to my songs is not folk, because, in his opinion, it includes the rhythms of waltz music and mazurkas, and these dance rhythms are used even in the cases where I…
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Mark Varshavsky
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1901
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So let’s drink whisky, brothers—
let’s hope we live to drink again.
Let’s drink now—enough of eating.
How can you forget about whisky for so long!
If we didn’t have whisky,
how would we live in this…
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Mikhl Gordon
Places:
Žagarė, Russian Empire (Žagarė, Lithuania)
Date:
ca. 1868
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There is no need to provide evidence concerning the great value of folk songs when one wishes to study the history of a people—any people—and all it has undergone. Alongside the history books of each…
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Shaul Ginsburg, Peysakh Marek
Places:
Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
Date:
1898
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Precisely in the case of a new and difficult question like “Jewish folk-music,” [ . . . ] it is necessary to establish as much as possible [its] specific, objective characteristics . . . You make fun…
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Joel Engel
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1901
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A whole world of railways appeared in our time
They carry their passengers—poor men and rich.
Admire the wonder, but bear this in mind:
It’s really a parable, meant just for you.
It is we who are…
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Elyokum Tsunzer
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1875