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Tel Aviv, the 1930's - and Hebrew Cabaret!?
Who knew?
My teacher is working on a fascinating new program about cabarets in pre-Israel Tel Aviv.
I'm happy to have been helped "seed" the initial research trip - here's an informative article on her work. -
Ben Sira teaches me English, Greek, Latin and Hebrew
I borrowed Kokovtsov's "Novyi evreiskii dokument o Khazarakh i khazaro-russko-vizantiiskikh otnosheniiakh v X viekie" (New Jewish Document about Khazar and Khazarik-Russian-Byzantine Relations in the 10th Century) from the JTS Library because it has Solomon Schecter's personal bookplate inside.
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Why I'm not surprised.
In several years of voice lessons I've worked on Russian, Ukrainian, Yiddish, and Hebrew. All these are familiar sounds of my adult life, but (ignoring Boris Badenov), mostly absent from childhood ( Read more... ) -
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I checked in for the first half of a hoedown with folks from both the Columbia and Princeton Electronic music labs, at a would-be dive called Tank in Tribeca. I only managed to stay for the first 3 pieces, due to the lateness of the hour and my inability to stand for another hour, but the great part is I really enjoyed all 3, and that's never a ( Read more... )
