Search results for "Jewish music" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • and pianists, used a working man's music to influence the kings and ... Gershwin's music exudes the power of spring-like hope. Unlike ...
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  • (July 7, 1887 – March 28, 1985) was a Jewish painter who was born in Belarus ... of his Belorussian roots as well as his Jewish heritage. ...
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  • Born to a Jewish family in Odessa during a period of social unrest ... Babel had to overcome the quota for Jewish students (10 percent within ...
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  • vocalists in twentieth century popular music. while lodging with a sympathetic immigrant Jewish family. During these years ...
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  • Jascha Heifetz (February 2, 1901 – December 10, 1987) was a Jewish ... Heifetz was born to Jewish parents in Vilnius, Lithuania, then part ...
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  • in Berdichev, Ukraine into an emancipated Jewish family, he did not receive ... the text to conceal the specifically anti-Jewish character of the atrocities ...
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  • from other songs is the fact that the music is far less important than ... Bards were rarely permitted to record their music, given the political nature ...
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  • It has inspired numerous works of art, music, and drama. ... against or resisted. According to the Jewish Encyclopedia the opening ...
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  • as symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano music, and chamber music. Born into a well-to-do Jewish family who later converted to Christianity ...
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  • of the time, growing up in a middle class Jewish family, with siblings and ... backgrounds (Wanda was Catholic, Horowitz Jewish) was not an issue, since ...
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  • Primo Levi (July 31, 1919 – April 11, 1987) was a Jewish Italian ... Levi was born in Turin in 1919 into a liberal Jewish family. In 1934 ...
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  • the age of three, when she and her German-Jewish family moved first to Vienna ... quot; by their neighbors, the Jewish Gertrude and Alice were able ...
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  • George Steiner was born in 1929 in Paris, France to Jewish Viennese ... the Nazis occupied Paris, and of the many Jewish children in Steiner's ...
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  • Apart from the libretto for the opera Maximilien Kolbe (music by Dominique ... * Le Maître (1962) Music by Germaine Tailleferre of Les Six ...
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  • * Jewish Christians * Paul the Apostle * Council of Jerusalem ... * Church music * Book of Common Prayer * King James Version ...
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  • his own life to save the lives of two Jewish children in 1938. ... Hitler's Germany, while Baer, who was Jewish, displayed an embroidered ...
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  • Zukofsky was born in New York to Lithuanian Jewish parents and grew ... through sonnets to free verse and the music of Bach. Section 12, which ...
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  • Hesse.] Retrieved August 25, 2007. and the Jewish Museum of New York (2006). challenge. Arthur Danto, writing of the Jewish Museum's 2006 retrospective ...
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  • Wolfgang in particular developed a love of classical music. ... his training in science with his love of music.Robert Sherrill, "Natural ...
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  • War I. He cause a major controversy in the music world in 1935 when he revealed ... Kreisler was born in Vienna to a Jewish father and a Roman Catholic ...
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