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Sholom Secunda
Sholom Secunda (, Alexandria, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire13 June 1974, New York) was an American composer of Ukrainian-Jewish descent, best known for the tunes of ''Bei Mir Bistu Shein'' and ''Donna Donna''. Biography He was born in 1894 as Shloyme Abramovich Sekunda (russian: Шлойме Абрамович Секунда) in Aleksandria city, Kherson Governorate,Zalmen Zylbercweig, Leksikon fun Yidishn Teater (Volume 2), p. 1515-1518 Russian Empire (now in Ukraine) to the family of Abram Secunda and Anna Nedobeika. In 1897 the family moved to the Black Sea port city of Mykolaiv, where they opened an iron bed factory. At age 12 Shloyme played Abraham/Avrom in Abraham Goldfaden's ''Akeydes Yitskhok (The Sacrifice of Isaac)'' and Markus in ''The Kishef-Makherin (The Sorceress).'' In 1907, like many other Jews of the Russian Empire (see History of the Jews in Russia), he and his family emigrated to the United States after a series of pogroms in 1905. In January 1908 the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleksandriia
Oleksandriia () is a city located in Oleksandriia Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast (region) in central Ukraine. Administratively, Oleksandriia serves as the administrative center of Oleksandriia Raion (district). Oleksandriia also hosts the administration of Oleksandriia urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. In 2001, it had a population of 93,357, and including the villages (selo) and urban type settlements in the city municipality a population of 103,856. It had a population of . History The city is first mentioned in 1746, as the settlement ''Usivka'' ().Oleksandriia |
Anti-Jewish Pogroms In The Russian Empire
Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism. Antisemitism has historically been manifested in many ways, ranging from expressions of hatred of or discrimination against individual Jews to organized pogroms by mobs, police forces, or genocide. Although the term did not come into common usage until the 19th century, it is also applied to previous and later anti-Jewish incidents. Notable instances of persecution include the Rhineland massacres preceding the First Crusade in 1096, the Edict of Expulsion from England in 1290, the 1348–1351 persecution of Jews during the Black Death, the massacres of Spanish Jews in 1391, the persecutions of the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion from Spain in 1492, the Cossack massacres in Ukraine from 1648 to 1657, various anti-Jewish pogroms in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Rosenberg
Israel (also Yisroel or Yisrol) Rosenberg (c. 1850 – 1903 or 1904; Yiddish/Hebrew: ישראל ראָזענבערג) founded the first Yiddish theater troupe in Imperial Russia. Life Having been a "hole-and-corner lawyer" (without a diploma) and swindler in Odessa, Rosenberg was one of many merchants and middlemen who moved to Bucharest, Romania, at the start of the Russo-Turkish War in 1877. When he arrived, he joined the nascent professional Yiddish-language theater troupe of Abraham Goldfaden. Following disagreements with Goldfaden, Rosenberg and his countryman Jacob Spivakovsky assembled a new travelling troupe and travelled around the eastern part of Romania. The troupe was initially successful, but much of their Yiddish-speaking audience returned to Russia at the end of the war, and they eventually returned destitute to Odessa, where there was a ready audience of those who had already seen Yiddish theater in Romania during the war. In spring 1878, Rosenberg obtained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberty Theater
The Liberty Theatre is a former Broadway theater at 234 West 42nd Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1904, the theater was designed by Herts & Tallant and built for Klaw and Erlanger, the partnership of theatrical producers Marc Klaw and A. L. Erlanger. The theater has been used as an event venue since 2011 and is part of an entertainment and retail complex developed by Forest City Ratner. The theater is owned by the city and state governments of New York and leased to New 42nd Street, which subleases the venue to Forest City Ratner. The Liberty consisted of an auditorium facing 41st Street and a lobby facing 42nd Street. The facade on 42nd Street is largely hidden but was designed in the neoclassical style, similar to the neighboring New Amsterdam Theatre, which was designed by the same architect. The lobby from 42nd Street led to the auditorium in the rear, as well as men's and women's lounges in the basement. The auditorium, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara Young (Yiddish Theater)
Clara Young (born Khaya-Risye Shpikolitser c. 1882 in Zlotshev, Galicia) was a Yiddish theatrical actor. Born to parents who loved the stage, she spent her early years in a home that housed rehearsals of traveling Yiddish theater troupes. After her father's death the family went to America, where she soon joined the Tantsman company and went to Boston, there to Zolotarevski's troupe in Montreal, thence to Toronto and to Morris Finkel's theater in Philadelphia.Zalmen Zylbercweig, ''Leksikon fun Yidishn teater'', Book two, 917-919 In 1903 she played in the People's Music Hall where she made a name with songs like and . In 1909 she went over to the Thalia Theater where her husband Boaz Young was part owner. Here she played serious roles for the first time, ''Tsipeniu'' and ''(God, man and devil)'' and ''Kreutzer Sonata'' and in singing the couplet Sigmund Mogulesko wrote for her, She played in which, along with Avrom Shomer's ''Alrightnikes'', she and her husband took to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Thomashevsky
Boris Thomashefsky (russian: Борис Пинхасович Томашевский, sometimes written Thomashevsky, Thomaschevsky, etc.; yi, באָריס טאָמאשעבסקי) (1868–1939), born Boruch-Aharon Thomashefsky, was a Ukrainian-born (later American) Jewish singer and actor who became one of the biggest stars in Yiddish theater. Early life He was born Boruch-Aharon Thomashefsky in Zylbercweig, Zalmen (1934).Tomashefsky, Boris . ''Leksikon fun yidishn teater'' exicon of the Yiddish theatre Vol. 2. Warsaw: Farlag Elisheva. Columns 804-840; here: col. 804. (Note: The birth year 1886 at the beginning of the entry is clearly a typographical error, apparently for 1868, since the author estimates that T. was in Berdichev as an 11-year-old in 1879.)The Timeline . ''The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia)
The Metropolitan Opera House is a historic opera house located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It has been used for many different purposes over its history. Now known as The Met, the theatre reopened in December 2018, after a complete renovation, as a concert venue. It is managed by Live Nation Philadelphia. Built over the course of just a few months in 1908, it was the ninth opera house built by impresario Oscar Hammerstein I. It was initially the home of Hammerstein's Philadelphia Opera Company, and called the "Philadelphia Opera House". Hammerstein sold the house to the Metropolitan Opera of New York City in 1910, when it was renamed. The Met used the theatre through 1920, after which various opera companies used the house through 1934. For over five more decades it remained in constant use in turn as a movie theater, a ballroom, a sports venue, mechanic training center, and a church. The building then fell into serious disrepair and was unused and vacant from 1988 until 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odeon Theater (New York)
Odeon Theatre or Odeon Theater or Odéon Theatre may refer to: Australia *Odeon Theatre in Norwood, South Australia, Australia *Odeon Theatre, Hobart, in Tasmania, Australia Canada * Odeon Theatre Toronto, Canada * Odeon Theatre (Victoria, British Columbia), Canada United States * Odeon Theater (Belview, Minnesota), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Redwood County, Minnesota, U.S. * Odeon Theater (Tucumcari, New Mexico), U.S. * Odeon Theatre (Greensboro, North Carolina), U.S. * Odeon Theater (Mason, Texas), U.S. Other countries *Odeon theater (Amman), in Jordan *Odeon Theatre (Bucharest), in Romania * Odeon Theatre, Christchurch, in New Zealand *Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, in Paris, France See also * Coors Event Centre, formerly Odeon Events Centre, in Saskatoon, Canada (originally built as a theatre) *Former Odeon cinemas in Leeds, UK *Odeon Cinemas, a cinema chain *Odeon Leeds-Bradford, a cinema complex in the UK *Odeon Star The Odeon Star Sema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juilliard School
The Juilliard School ( ) is a private performing arts conservatory in New York City. Established in 1905, the school trains about 850 undergraduate and graduate students in dance, drama, and music. It is widely regarded as one of the most elite drama, music, and dance schools in the world. History Early years: 1905-1946 In 1905, the Institute of Musical Art, Juilliard's predecessor institution, was founded by Frank Damrosch, the godson of Franz Liszt and head of music education for New York City's public schools, on the premise that the United States did not have a premier music school and too many students were going to Europe to study music. In 1919, a wealthy textile merchant named Augustus Juilliard died and left the school in his will the largest single bequest for the advancement of music at that time. In 1968, the school's name was changed from the Juilliard School of Music to The Juilliard School to reflect its broadened mission to educate musicians, directors, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennie Goldstein
Jennie Goldstein (May 8, 1896 – February 9, 1960) was a Jewish American theater actress and singer. Early life Goldstein was born in New York; her father was a butcher. When she was 6, actress Rosa Margulies noticed her pretty voice and drew her into child roles at the Windsor Theater, including ''Hanele di neytorin (Hannah the seamstress)'' with Bertha Kalich. Having made a good impression, Jennie was soon making $9 a week. She went to Kenny Liptsin in the Thalia Theater and played in Jacob Mikhailovich Gordin's טהרת המשפחה ''Family Purity''—for which Sigmund Mogulesko wrote her the song ''Oyf yener zayt (On the other side)''—and ''Der umbakanter (The stranger)''.Zalmen Zylbercweig, ''Leksikon fun Yidishn teater'', Book one, 378 At the age of 13 she began to play adult roles for Max R. Veyner, her first being Yoysef Lateyner's ''Dos Yidishe harts (the Jewish heart)''. She moved to Clinton Street Vaudeville in 1909. She met Max Gabel (Gebil) there and mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khazn
A ''hazzan'' (; , lit. Hazan) or ''chazzan'' ( he, חַזָּן , plural ; Yiddish ''khazn''; Ladino ''Hasan'') is a Jewish musician or precentor trained in the vocal arts who helps lead the congregation in songful prayer. In English, this prayer leader is often referred to as a cantor, a term also used in Christianity. ''Sh'liaḥ tzibbur'' and the evolution of the hazzan The person leading the congregation in public prayers is called the '' sh'liaḥ tzibbur'' (Hebrew for "emissary of the congregation"). Jewish law restricts this role to adult Jews; among Orthodox Jews, it is restricted to males. In theory, any lay person can be a ''sh'liaḥ tzibbur''; many synagogue-attending Jews will serve in this role from time to time, especially on weekdays or when having a Yartzeit. Someone with good Hebrew pronunciation is preferred. In practice, in synagogues without an official Hazzan, those with the best voice and the most knowledge of the prayers serve most often. As publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
