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  • records during this golden age of popular music, Ertegun also wrote songs ... Much loved in the music world, Ertegün was honored with several memorial ...
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  • to the exegesis of biblically-related Jewish law. Jewish tradition allows ... are used in the interpretation of Halakha (Jewish law). However, aggadic (non ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • well-off saloon owners of Hungarian Jewish descent. Her mother, Rose ... org/discover/infocus/comedy/radner Jewish Women in Comedy] Jewish Women ...
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  • that it was "un-German" or "Jewish Bolshevist" in nature ... of Romantic realism Heroic art. Similarly, music was expected to be tonal ...
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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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  • 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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