The New Jewish School (Russian: Новая еврейская школа (НЕШ)) was a movement in Russia of the 1900s to create a national

Jewish art music The Jewish art music movement began at the end of the 19th century in Russia, with a group of Russian Jewish classical composers dedicated to preserving Jewish folk music and creating a new, characteristically Jewish genre of classical music. The ...

. It was connected with the founding of the

Society for Jewish Folk Music The Jewish art music movement began at the end of the 19th century in Russia, with a group of Russian Jewish classical composers dedicated to preserving Jewish folk music and creating a new, characteristically Jewish genre of classical music. The ...

Selected discography

* ''Eli Zion - from St. Petersburg to Jerusalem - Music from the "New Jewish School"'' :

Joseph Achron Joseph Yulyevich Achron, also seen as Akhron (Russian: Иосиф Юльевич Ахрон, Hebrew: יוסף אחרון) (May 1, 1886April 29, 1943) was a Russian-born Jewish composer and violinist, who settled in the United States. His preoccu ...

: ''Fragment mystique.'' Ernest Bloch:'' Méditation hébraïque. From Jewish Life.'' Sinowi Feldman ''Poem.'' Solomon Rosowsky: ''Rhapsodie - Récitatif et Danse Hassidique.''

Lazare Saminsky Lazare Saminsky, born Lazar Semyonovich Saminsky (russian: Лазарь (Элиэзер) Семенович Саминский; Valehotsulove (now Dolynske), near Odessa, 27 October 1882 O.S. / 8 November N.S. – Port Chester, New York, 30 June ...

: ''Chassidic Suite: Chassidic Dance. Chassidic Suite: Meditation.''

Joachim Stutschewsky Joachim-Yehoyachin Stutschewsky, ( he, יהויכין סטוצ'בסקי, russian: Иоахим Стучевский, 7 February 1891 – 14 November 1982) was a Ukraine-born Austrian and Israeli cellist, composer, musicologist. Biography Joachim- ...

: ''Frejlachs. Shir Yehudi. Israeli Suite.''

Leo Zeitlin Lev Mordukhovich Tseitlin (russian: Лев Цейтлин, yi, לייב צייטלין "Leyb Tseytlin", born 1884, in Pinsk – July 8, 1930, in New York City), known as Leo Zeitlin, was a Russian-Jewish composer. In 1923, he emigrated to the ...

: ''Eli Zion - paraphrase on a folk theme and trope of 'Song of Songs'.'' Performed by David Geringas (cello) and Jascha Nemtsov (piano). recording SWR. released

Hänssler Classic Hänssler-Verlag is a German music publishing house founded in 1919 as Musikverlag Hänssler by Friedrich Hänssler Senior (died 1972) to publish church music. The company is now based in Holzgerlingen. Since 1972 Hänssler Verlag has also publis ...

.''Jewish renaissance: magazine of Jewish culture'' Volume 4 - Page 31 2004 "... provides a window into the group of composers and performers who championed Jewish music in the first half of the 20th ... the CD its title, was, according to the erudite sleeve notes, one of the most frequently played pieces of the New Jewish School between 1910 and 1930. It receives here its world premiere recording, alongside Feldman's impassioned Poem, ..."

References

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