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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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  • 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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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh). According to Jewish tradition, the Torah was ... the entire spectrum of authoritative Jewish religious teachings throughout ...
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  • difficulties of reconciling traditional Jewish culture with modernity. The ... Roth, Towering Novelist Who Explored Lust, Jewish Life and America, Dies at ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • *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). ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Standard Dictionary, included the The Jewish Encyclopedia, The Metropolitan ... 1901. The Launching of a Great Work: The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk ...
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  • in London, Ontario, Canada of a Polish–Jewish family, was the president ... Pearl Leah Eichelbaum, a Yiddish-speaking Jewish family from Krasnosielc, ...
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  • next book is Joshua (which, according to Jewish tradition, was written by ... According to Jewish tradition, the Torah was revealed to Moses by ...
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  • rights activism, literature, poetry, and music. In 1904 Johnson went on ... After successes with their songwriting and music the brothers worked at Broadway ...
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  • ) is a major Jewish festival, also known as Succoth, Sukkos, the Feast ... During Sukkot, observant Jewish families eat, sleep, and entertain ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • conductors at the Tanglewood Institute of Music remained his passion until ... whose music fused elements of jazz, Jewish music, theatre music, and the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Matthew is most closely aligned with the Jewish tradition, and the author ... show that this Gospel was written by Jewish Christians of Iudaea Province. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • writer of poetry, drama, essays, and music criticism. Writing in the ... working initially in a warehouse for music records. His interest in ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • 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) ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Nazis coordinated an attack on Jewish people and their property ... the grip of skillfully orchestrated anti-Jewish violence. In the early hours ...
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  • first ghettos were established to confine Jewish populations in Europe. They ... The original ghetto was formed by the Jewish immigrants to Venice in the ...
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  • The Literary Digest (founded in 1890), Jewish Encyclopedia (12 volumes ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure 212425697 ...
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  • The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical ... The invisible, vibratory world of instrumental music can be said to ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Gaza and neighboring countries as the Jewish state was formed. ... Ashdod. The first settlers, 22 families of Jewish immigrants from Morocco arrived ...
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  • the Apostle among the natives and the Jewish diaspora in Kerala. They ... community was strengthened by Christian-Jewish Knanaya colonies of third ...
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  • Philip Mendes asserts that before the anti-Jewish actions of the 1930s and ... Local Yemenite Jewish traditions trace the earliest settlement of ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • of rabbinical discussions pertaining to Jewish law, biblical interpretation ... were quoted to "prove" ideas of Jewish arrogance and hatred toward ...
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  • 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 ...
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