Songs of the Shtetl
Title | Songs of the Shtetl PDF eBook |
Author | Marguerite Dorian |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2018-05-16 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781986582254 |
Through delicious drawings, yiddish songs along with their English translations, Songs of the Shtetl takes us on a sentimental journey to an small East European Jewish community from long ago. There is a parade of endearing characters: the miracle working rabbi, the rich boss, the poor, hard-working Hasid, the prankish tailor, the wandering musicians, and of course, the matchmaker. The book is filled with affection, tenderness, endearment, charm, and humor.
Shtetl Love Song
Title | Shtetl Love Song PDF eBook |
Author | Grigory Kanovich |
Publisher | |
Pages | 521 |
Release | 2017-09-09 |
Genre | Jews |
ISBN | 9780995560024 |
Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish
Title | Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Gottlieb |
Publisher | |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 2004-03 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780791461013 |
Home Longings
Title | Home Longings PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca Joy Fletcher |
Publisher | |
Pages | 118 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Jews |
ISBN |
Jewish Life: the Old Country
Title | Jewish Life: the Old Country PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Rubin |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Folk songs, Yiddish |
ISBN | 0814332587 |
From the archives of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, a collection of traditional Yiddish folksongs by highly regarded ethnomusicologist Ruth Rubin, presented with added commentary from music scholars Chana Mlotek and Mark Slobin.
Singing for Survival
Title | Singing for Survival PDF eBook |
Author | Gila Flam |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780252018176 |
Gila Flam offers a penetrating insider's look at a musical culture previously unexplored---the song repertoire created and performed in the Lodz ghetto of Poland. Drawing on interviews with survivors and on library and archival materials, the author illustrates the general themes of the Lodz repertoire and explores the nature of Holocaust song. Most of the songs are presented here for the first time. "An extremely accurate and valuable work. There is nothing like it in either the extensive holocaust literature or the ethnomusicology literature." -- Mark Slobin, author of Chosen Voices: The Story of the American Cantorate
The Golden Age Shtetl
Title | The Golden Age Shtetl PDF eBook |
Author | Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 445 |
Release | 2014-03-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1400851165 |
A major history of the shtetl's golden age The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides the first grassroots social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl. Challenging popular misconceptions of the shtetl as an isolated, ramshackle Jewish village stricken by poverty and pogroms, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern argues that, in its heyday from the 1790s to the 1840s, the shtetl was a thriving Jewish community as vibrant as any in Europe. Petrovsky-Shtern brings this golden age to life, looking at dozens of shtetls and drawing on a wealth of never-before-used archival material. Illustrated throughout with rare archival photographs and artwork, this nuanced history casts the shtetl in an altogether new light, revealing how its golden age continues to shape the collective memory of the Jewish people today.