Author: Rodney Anson RossPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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From Slobodke to Milwaukee
Author: Rodney Anson RossWisconsin Magazine of History
Author: Milo Milton QuaifePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Wisconsin Magazine of History
Author: Milo Milton QuaifePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 738
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A Passion for Polka
Author: Victor GreenePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520911725
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Not so long ago, songs by the Andrews Sisters and Lawrence Welk blasted from phonographs, lilted over the radio, and dazzled television viewers across the country. Lending star quality to the ethnic music of Poles, Italians, Slovaks, Jews, and Scandinavians, luminaries like Frankie Yankovic, the Polka King, and "Whoopee John" Wilfart became household names to millions of Americans. In this vivid and engaging book, Victor Greene uncovers a wonderful corner of American social history as he traces the popularization of old-time ethnic music from the turn of the century to the 1960s. Drawing on newspaper clippings, private collections, ethnic societies, photographs, recordings, and interviews with musicians and promoters, Greene chronicles the emergence of a new mass culture that drew heavily on the vivid color, music, and dance of ethnic communities. In this story of American ethnic music, with its countless entertainers performing never-forgotten tunes in hundreds of small cities around the country, Greene revises our notion of how many Americans experienced cultural life. In the polka belt, extending from Connecticut to Nebraska and from Texas up to Minnesota and the Dakotas, not only were polkas, laendlers, schottisches, and waltzes a musical passion, but they shone a scintillating new light on the American cultural landscape. Greene follows the fortunes of groups like the Gold Chain Bohemians, illuminating the development of an important segment of American popular music that fed the craze for international dance music. And even though old-time music declined in the 1960s, overtaken by rock and roll, a new Grammy for the polka was initiated in 1986. In its ebullience and vitality, the genre endures.
The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania
Author: Herman KrukPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300044941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
The widely scattered pages of the diaries, collected here for the first time, have been meticulously deciphered, translated, and annotated for this volume.".
The Pleasant Way
Author: Avrohom PamPublisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Torah thoughts based on and adapted from the teaching of Rabbi Abraham Pam.
Isaac Levitan
Author: Evgenija N. PetrovaPublisher:
ISBN: 9783940761651
Category : Art, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Billboard
Author: The Annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry
Author: Efroim OshryPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Pt. 1 (pp. 1-173), "The Kovno Ghetto, 1941-1944", is a history and memoir by Oshry, a former student at the Slobodka Yeshiva. Figured prominently are many great Torah scholars, as well as simple Jews (including children) whose spiritual resistance to the Nazis included devotion to religious practice to the point of martyrdom. Oshry, a rabbi, survived until liberation in a hidden bunker for 38 days. Pt. 2 (pp. 178-291), "The Annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry: The Cities and Towns of Jewish Lithuania", provides short histories of 47 communities, with a focus on their outstanding religious personalities and institutions, and an account of the destruction of each of these communities and almost all of their inhabitants during the Holocaust.
John Willis' Theatre World
Author: John A. WillisPublisher:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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