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Living from Convention to Convention: A History of the NCSY, ...

Living from Convention to Convention: A History of the NCSY, ...

Zev Eleff

A History of the NCSY, 1954-1980 Zev Eleff. The development of Jewish religious youth movements in the latter half of the twentieth century is both an important piece of American Jewish history, and a realm of study that has yet to receive ...
Who Rules the Synagogue?: Religious Authority and the ...

Who Rules the Synagogue?: Religious Authority and the ...

Zev Eleff

Eleff weaves together the significant episodes and debates that shaped American Judaism during this formative period, and places this story into the larger context of American religious history and modern Jewish history.
Who Rules the Synagogue?: Religious Authority and the ...

Who Rules the Synagogue?: Religious Authority and the ...

Zev Eleff

Ginsberg, Saul. “Max Lilienthal's Activities in Russia: New Documents.” Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society 25 (1939): 39–51. Gjerde, Jon. Catholicism and the Shaping of Nineteenth-Century America, ed. S. Deborah Kang.
Modern Orthodox Judaism: A Documentary History

Modern Orthodox Judaism: A Documentary History

Zev Eleff

Many texts in this volume are drawn from episodes of conflict that helped form Modern Orthodox Judaism.
Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox ...

Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox ...

Adam S. Ferziger

Zev Eleff's history of the National Council for Synagogue Youth (NCSY), sponsored by the Orthodox Union (OU), offers a fine illustration of the transition in outreach. While most of the NCSY participants were from nonobservant homes, through ...
Flipping out?: myth or fact? : the impact of the "year in ...

Flipping out?: myth or fact? : the impact of the "year in ...

Shalom Zvi Berger

After. A. Year.For.Less. Academic. Alternatives-2204991.shtml 56 See Zev Eleff and Eitan Kastner, "Reconciling Institutional Divides: Rosh Kollel and YC Dean Begin Dialogue," in The Commentator, September 11, 2006, available online at ...
Mentor of Generations: Reflections on Rabbi Joseph B. ...

Mentor of Generations: Reflections on Rabbi Joseph B. ...

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Reflections on Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Edited by Zev Eleff Collecting over 55 essays by his students and those close to him, Mentor of Generations: Reflections on Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik offers readers anecdotes and insights ...
Between Minority and Majority: Hungarian and Jewish/Israeli ...

Between Minority and Majority: Hungarian and Jewish/Israeli ...

Levente Salat

12Walter Zev Feldman: “Traditional and Instrumental Folk Music.” The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. ... 20 Unpublished lecture by Walter Zev Feldman: “The Historical Klezmer.” Presented at Jüdische Musik als Dialog der ...
Ethnomusicology: A Research and Information Guide

Ethnomusicology: A Research and Information Guide

Jennifer Post

Khevrisa (Steven Greenman, violin; W. Zev Feldman, cimbal; Alicia Svigals, Michael Alpert, violins; Stuart Brotman, bass). Notes by Walter Zev Feldman, with glossary and bibliography, and biographical notes on the performers (36 p., illus.) .
The Book of Klezmer: The History, the Music, the Folklore

The Book of Klezmer: The History, the Music, the Folklore

Yale Strom

The ethnomusicologist Zev Feldman traced the path this “Bessarabian klezmer” took: “The Greeks in particular formed a lively ... 66 Walter Zev Feldman, Khevrisa : European Klezmer Music (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Folkways Recording,  ...
American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots

American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots

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walter. zev. feldman. Like Jews in many parts of the world, the Jews of eastern Europe had families whose hereditary occupation was the performance of music. However, unlike any Jewish group that has been documented in the twentieth ...
Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance

Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance

Judith Brin Ingber

Several musicologists who are working klezmer musicians, including Hankus Netsky, Michael Alpert, and Walter Zev Feldman, have devoted themselves to the re-creation and revitalization of klezmer music and tangentially to the dances it ...
Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory

Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory

Walter Zev Feldman

He draws upon the foundational notated collections of the late Tsarist and early Soviet periods, as well as rare cantorial and klezmer manuscripts from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries.
Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory

Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory

Walter Zev Feldman

He draws upon the foundational notated collections of the late Tsarist and early Soviet periods, as well as rare cantorial and klezmer manuscripts from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries.
Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film

Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film

Gregg Mitman

Chip Burkhardt, Kevin Dann, Mary Fissell, Betsy Hanson, Karen Merrill, Katherine Pandora, Donald Pisani, François Pouillon, and Zev Trachten- berg, in addition to two anonymous referees, offered invaluable advice and criticism on the ...
Klezmer's Afterlife: An Ethnography of the Jewish Music ...

Klezmer's Afterlife: An Ethnography of the Jewish Music ...

Magdalena Waligorska

94 Walter Zev Feldman, one of the pioneers of the American klezmer revival, notes the discrepancy between the positive image generated by the festival and the real problems of Polish—Jewish relations, which remain unresolved. Feldman ...
Argentine Jews in the Age of Revolt: Between the New World ...

Argentine Jews in the Age of Revolt: Between the New World ...

Beatrice D. Gurwitz

Ava Abramowitz, Sarah Gurwitz, Zev Gurwitz, and Jessica Simon cheered me on. My parents, Susan Abramowitz and Aaron Gurwitz, have supported this endeavor in numerous ways, ranging from sharp editing to steadfast encouragement to ...
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music

The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music

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2 Walter Salmen, “Denn die Fiedel macht das Fest”: J ̈udische Musikanten und Tänzer vom 13. bis 20. ... 9 Salmen, “Denn die Fiedel”; Walter Zev Feldman, “ Remembrance of Things Past: Klezmer Musicians of Galicia, 1870–1940,” Polin:  ...
Maven in Blue Jeans: A Festschrift in Honor of Zev Garber

Maven in Blue Jeans: A Festschrift in Honor of Zev Garber

Steven L. Jacobs

It was published originally in Amsterdam in 1765 and then, being quite popular at this age of “reason,” it was published in six more editions.24 One of the stated goals of Haskalah was to foster secular studies among the Jews, particularly in general and natural sciences. Among the first Maskilim in Germany who wrote on natural sciences was Baruch Linda. He published a series of articles on science in Hame'asef,25 which were published in 1789 in his book Resheet Limudim.

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