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- Shavuot (or Shavuos; "Weeks") is a Jewish holiday that occurs ... festivals known as the shalosh regalim in Jewish tradition. ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 13:22, 27 January 2023
- particularly for his waltzes, a form of music he was instrumental in popularizing ... orchestra, specializing in light, danceable music including waltzes, quadrilles ...11 KB (1,610 words) - 14:55, 1 August 2022
- them are very few. His attachment to his Jewish background is displayed both ... Alkan was born Charles-Valentin Morhange to a Jewish family in Paris ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
- classical composer of concert and film music. Instrumental in forging ... Spring, a score that also looked to folk music for its inspiration. He also ...13 KB (1,822 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- bassist best known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony ... By establishing the Tanglewood Insitute of Music in 1940 he sought to encourage ...13 KB (1,788 words) - 09:57, 26 January 2023
- religious Orthodox Jews and he attended a Jewish elementary school, then a ... I reached the age of fifteen, I left the Jewish way of life and the study ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
- are camps for the performing arts, rock music, magic, computers, children ... Jewish summer camps enjoy a long history in the United States.Jonathan ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 22:22, 26 February 2023
- Philharmonic Orchestra. Later he became music director of the Vienna Philharmonic ... the other hand, was among those in the Jewish music community who came to ...21 KB (3,095 words) - 11:58, 5 May 2023
- #039;s views on race, which threatened his Jewish wife Laura Luzzatto, only ... were largely spent writing essays rather than music. He had no more ...10 KB (1,496 words) - 02:43, 5 November 2022
- twentieth-century American composer and music administrator. In addition ... achieved prominence in the international music scene. Although he was influenced ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 10:50, 12 May 2023
- to the lack of acceptance from the Jewish leaders, but also the extension ... degradation, as swine are not kosher under Jewish law.) There he comes to his ...15 KB (2,442 words) - 07:38, 18 November 2022
- the International Society for Contemporary Music festival in Salzburg, which ... nature of his scores. Today much of his music sounds relatively tame in ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 17:06, 21 November 2022
- as meaning that those who follow the law, Jewish or not, will be able to inherit ... antipathy between Samaritans and the Jewish population, he immediately ...15 KB (2,463 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- and Irene Cohen Luzzato who was of Jewish origin from Trieste. LaGuardia ... Congressional district was shifting from a Jewish and Italian-American population ...15 KB (2,248 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- youth, writing Catholic poems despite his Jewish background, a follower of ... Ehrenburg a was prominent member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 23:54, 22 January 2023
- new sounds. Known as the "bad boy in music" because of his aesthetic ... Antheil was not Polish, as he claimed, nor Jewish, as others thought. His father ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 07:01, 18 April 2024
- and operas. He was also a highly regarded music conductor. ... his father in his youth, writing his first music at the age of six. He continued ...15 KB (2,261 words) - 01:47, 14 December 2022
- writer, allegorist, and a well-known Jewish-American author. He has received ... 26, 1914, in Brooklyn, New York to Russian Jewish immigrants, Max and Bertha ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 15:38, 29 September 2023
- for his knowledge of the orchestral music of German operas, the libretto ... aspects of his art form. On the topic of music and its influence of the ...16 KB (2,368 words) - 04:44, 22 November 2023
- quot; which had arisen from the Arab and Jewish commentaries on Aristotle. ... other things, he rejected the idea of "music of the spheres" as ridiculous; ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- records during this golden age of popular music, Ertegun also wrote songs ... Much loved in the music world, Ertegün was honored with several memorial ...12 KB (1,872 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- to the exegesis of biblically-related Jewish law. Jewish tradition allows ... are used in the interpretation of Halakha (Jewish law). However, aggadic (non ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 17:34, 9 November 2022
- African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music ... vernacular traditions. African American music and all aspects of African ...16 KB (2,453 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- the soul of punk rock created a form of music which more clearly portrayed ... Hills neighborhood of Queens, New York, of Jewish heritage. In his youth, he ...10 KB (1,557 words) - 02:04, 9 February 2023
- or the circumstances of their composition. Jewish and Christian tradition maintains ... psalmos), a lyric ode or a song set to music; a sacred song accompanied ...21 KB (3,276 words) - 00:29, 19 November 2023
- well-off saloon owners of Hungarian Jewish descent. Her mother, Rose ... org/discover/infocus/comedy/radner Jewish Women in Comedy] Jewish Women ...19 KB (2,934 words) - 00:41, 25 March 2024
- that it was "un-German" or "Jewish Bolshevist" in nature ... of Romantic realism Heroic art. Similarly, music was expected to be tonal ...20 KB (2,833 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
- and pianists, used a working man's music to influence the kings and ... Gershwin's music exudes the power of spring-like hope. Unlike ...15 KB (2,270 words) - 16:35, 20 May 2024
- (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. ...14 KB (2,115 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- 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 ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 18:50, 7 March 2024
- vocalists in twentieth century popular music. while lodging with a sympathetic immigrant Jewish family. During these years ...17 KB (2,605 words) - 02:51, 4 November 2022
- Jascha Heifetz (February 2, 1901 – December 10, 1987) was a Jewish ... Heifetz was born to Jewish parents in Vilnius, Lithuania, then part ...17 KB (2,485 words) - 09:58, 1 April 2024
- in Berdichev, Ukraine into an emancipated Jewish family, he did not receive ... the text to conceal the specifically anti-Jewish character of the atrocities ...10 KB (1,566 words) - 16:18, 14 November 2022
- 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 ...11 KB (1,802 words) - 08:06, 20 September 2023
- It has inspired numerous works of art, music, and drama. ... against or resisted. According to the Jewish Encyclopedia the opening ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 00:21, 19 November 2023
- as symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano music, and chamber music. Born into a well-to-do Jewish family who later converted to Christianity ...31 KB (4,782 words) - 17:14, 26 March 2024
- 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 ...22 KB (3,176 words) - 20:45, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...16 KB (2,482 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- 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 ...10 KB (1,473 words) - 18:29, 21 May 2024
- 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 ...21 KB (2,963 words) - 14:58, 21 May 2024
- Apart from the libretto for the opera Maximilien Kolbe (music by Dominique ... * Le Maître (1962) Music by Germaine Tailleferre of Les Six ...15 KB (2,272 words) - 04:19, 23 March 2024
- his own life to save the lives of two Jewish children in 1938. ... Hitler's Germany, while Baer, who was Jewish, displayed an embroidered ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 00:59, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 04:11, 4 November 2022
- Hesse.] Retrieved August 25, 2007. and the Jewish Museum of New York (2006). challenge. Arthur Danto, writing of the Jewish Museum's 2006 retrospective ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 04:48, 23 March 2024
- Wolfgang in particular developed a love of classical music. ... his training in science with his love of music.Robert Sherrill, "Natural ...14 KB (2,050 words) - 23:20, 17 May 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,707 words) - 07:05, 15 April 2024
- 11, 1864 - May 5, 1921), was an Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist ... Fried was born in Vienna to a Jewish family. At the age of 15, he ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 07:20, 20 July 2023
- Otto Weininger was born the son of the Jewish goldsmith, Leopold Weininger ... who has a genius for, say, mathematics, or music, but there is only the universal ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- Born William Samuel Rosenberg to a Jewish family in New York City ... In June 1934, he opened The Billy Rose Music Hall at 52nd and Broadway ...9 KB (1,337 words) - 17:39, 31 October 2023
- of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh). According to Jewish tradition, the Torah was ... the entire spectrum of authoritative Jewish religious teachings throughout ...24 KB (3,856 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- difficulties of reconciling traditional Jewish culture with modernity. The ... Roth, Towering Novelist Who Explored Lust, Jewish Life and America, Dies at ...23 KB (3,273 words) - 22:40, 28 March 2023
- He wrote in Yiddish. From a traditional Jewish village, he would move to ... Street in the Yiddish-speaking poor Jewish quarter of Warsaw in 1908 ...18 KB (2,895 words) - 18:52, 7 March 2024
- *In Jewish liturgy, Ten Martyrs are singled out as a group. *There are said to be Ten Lost Tribes of Israel (those other than Judah and Benjamin). ...13 KB (1,819 words) - 06:26, 13 June 2023
- the plays resulted in a rise in anti-Jewish violence following performances ... in light of their potential to cause anti-Jewish sentiment. The U.S. Council ...20 KB (2,912 words) - 09:02, 18 November 2022
- The Standard Dictionary, included the The Jewish Encyclopedia, The Metropolitan ... 1901. The Launching of a Great Work: The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 19:40, 7 February 2023
- in London, Ontario, Canada of a Polish–Jewish family, was the president ... Pearl Leah Eichelbaum, a Yiddish-speaking Jewish family from Krasnosielc, ...9 KB (1,211 words) - 08:50, 13 March 2024
- next book is Joshua (which, according to Jewish tradition, was written by ... According to Jewish tradition, the Torah was revealed to Moses by ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- rights activism, literature, poetry, and music. In 1904 Johnson went on ... After successes with their songwriting and music the brothers worked at Broadway ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 14:28, 24 March 2023
- ) is a major Jewish festival, also known as Succoth, Sukkos, the Feast ... During Sukkot, observant Jewish families eat, sleep, and entertain ...19 KB (2,871 words) - 21:43, 26 February 2023
- visited by the Holocaust in which 10,000 Jewish people were killed, and has ... of the population of Chişinău was Jewish--one of the highest numbers ...21 KB (3,032 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- conductors at the Tanglewood Institute of Music remained his passion until ... whose music fused elements of jazz, Jewish music, theatre music, and the ...27 KB (3,897 words) - 22:15, 20 December 2023
- order to distinguish their writings from Jewish scholarly works due to controversy ... for far longer than in the West. The Jewish religion still retains the ...13 KB (1,930 words) - 22:22, 7 January 2024
- the illegitimate offspring of Lyubov and a Jewish banker, Lazar Poliakoff. ... choreographed The Dying Swan for her to the music of Saint-Saens. It became ...11 KB (1,683 words) - 06:48, 28 July 2023
- Matthew is most closely aligned with the Jewish tradition, and the author ... show that this Gospel was written by Jewish Christians of Iudaea Province. ...26 KB (3,813 words) - 14:10, 30 December 2022
- European dance, and also a genre of dance music, familiar throughout Europe ... around the circumference of the circle. The music for the polka is in moderately ...27 KB (4,215 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- writer of poetry, drama, essays, and music criticism. Writing in the ... working initially in a warehouse for music records. His interest in ...18 KB (2,687 words) - 07:05, 25 July 2023
- in 1927. The film is the story of a young Jewish man, Jakie Rabinowitz, who ... Dandy, Till the Clouds Roll By, Words and Music, and Three Little Words. ...14 KB (2,198 words) - 04:22, 17 June 2023
- to a Los Angeles woman, the heir of a Jewish family that had its art stolen ... * Music I (1895) * Love (1895) * Sculpture (1896) * Tragedy (1897) ...15 KB (2,101 words) - 21:28, 26 July 2023
- born in New York City into an upper class Jewish family. Her older brother ... *Jewish Giant at Home with His Parents in The Bronx, NY. University ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 11:54, 29 January 2024
- The Nazis coordinated an attack on Jewish people and their property ... the grip of skillfully orchestrated anti-Jewish violence. In the early hours ...26 KB (3,708 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2023
- first ghettos were established to confine Jewish populations in Europe. They ... The original ghetto was formed by the Jewish immigrants to Venice in the ...30 KB (4,539 words) - 18:52, 21 May 2024
- The Literary Digest (founded in 1890), Jewish Encyclopedia (12 volumes ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure 212425697 ...7 KB (985 words) - 05:46, 15 June 2023
- The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical ... The invisible, vibratory world of instrumental music can be said to ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 17:43, 20 December 2022
- instruments. He wrote a notable book on music, Kitab al-Musiqa (The Book ... he charmed the court with his discourse and music, and then refused the Sultan’s ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- Gaza and neighboring countries as the Jewish state was formed. ... Ashdod. The first settlers, 22 families of Jewish immigrants from Morocco arrived ...25 KB (3,733 words) - 04:02, 18 August 2023
- the Apostle among the natives and the Jewish diaspora in Kerala. They ... community was strengthened by Christian-Jewish Knanaya colonies of third ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- Philip Mendes asserts that before the anti-Jewish actions of the 1930s and ... Local Yemenite Jewish traditions trace the earliest settlement of ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- fact regarding the Nazi massacre of the Jewish population of Kiev in September ... of Houston's Moores School of Music in 1998, under the baton ...20 KB (2,819 words) - 11:11, 24 May 2023
- of rabbinical discussions pertaining to Jewish law, biblical interpretation ... were quoted to "prove" ideas of Jewish arrogance and hatred toward ...32 KB (4,820 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- Baer was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of a Jewish German immigrant ... didn't ban the picture because I have Jewish blood. They banned it because ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 00:53, 9 November 2022
- Born in Brooklyn to Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine, Kaye became ... when he appeared at the London Palladium music hall in 1948, he "roused ...13 KB (1,920 words) - 06:25, 15 January 2023
- Although many people long assumed she was Jewish because of heritage and her ... who was playing Maria in The Sound of Music. These two women were friends ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 04:31, 22 March 2024
- ten, producing short pieces that imitated music he had played. He was influenced ... This highly intellectual and scientific approach to music brought ...35 KB (5,095 words) - 03:55, 15 August 2023
- his congregation who were taking part in Jewish festivals and other Jewish ... prevent Christians from participating in Jewish customs, and thus prevent ...31 KB (4,708 words) - 04:44, 3 August 2022
- Middle Ages. Gumilev maintained that the Jewish culture was, by nature, mercantile ... category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure Lev_Gumilev|211913337 ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- used pseudonym of Paul Antschel, a Jewish author who wrote primarily ... Celan was born in 1920 into a German-speaking Jewish family in Cernăuţi ...19 KB (3,103 words) - 16:50, 21 November 2022
- parts of the musical and film The Sound of Music. Salzburg is also a student ... occupied Salzburg; political opponents and Jewish citizens were subsequently ...19 KB (2,898 words) - 01:56, 23 December 2022
- According to Christian and Jewish traditions, the number of archangels ... . It is therefore widely speculated that Jewish interest in angels was learned ...17 KB (2,515 words) - 02:14, 9 January 2023
- arts library, and top class dance and music training facilities. ... listed here in alphabetical order: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center ...27 KB (4,040 words) - 07:39, 9 March 2023
- suffering two official denunciations of his music in 1936 and 1948 and the ... wrote primarily in the romantic music idiom, drawing heavily on ...29 KB (4,378 words) - 16:30, 29 January 2024
- which deals with the adaptation of Jewish immigrants to rural life ... The influence of folk music and a countrified language has always ...11 KB (1,764 words) - 04:47, 18 April 2024
- are taken as one of the mitzvot on the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. *The Four Cups of Wine to drink on the Jewish holiday of Passover. ...24 KB (3,319 words) - 06:45, 13 June 2023
- one of the greatest vocalists in jazz music. Though without technical ... in what many consider some of jazz music's greatest recordings ...15 KB (2,388 words) - 17:35, 31 October 2023
- * The Jewish religious rite of brit milah is held on a baby boy's ... * Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish holiday that starts on the twenty ...21 KB (2,909 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
- Arnold "Red" Auerbach was born and raised in a Jewish family ... He was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame ...21 KB (3,308 words) - 19:09, 16 April 2023
- Easter is also linked to the Jewish Passover, especially for its position ... The observance of any non-Jewish holiday by Christians is believed ...23 KB (3,508 words) - 17:05, 10 October 2020
- Greenberg was one of the first Jewish superstars in American professional ... to play baseball on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, even though ...29 KB (4,518 words) - 21:15, 17 January 2024
- her choreographic innovations was "music visualization," a style ... a quota in order to reduce the number of Jewish students in its New York ...12 KB (1,963 words) - 23:52, 21 August 2022
- with establishing the first military music bands. While initially well ... soldiers, and marched to distinctive music, the Mehter, similar to a ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 16:11, 8 February 2023
- starting at sunset, a practice inherited from Jewish tradition ... (Nativity plays), special festive music for organ, vocal and brass ...27 KB (4,071 words) - 21:38, 10 December 2023
