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"Unofficially considered 'the father of Jewish music', Joel Engel (1868-1927) paved the way for a nationalist movement that used Yiddish and Hebrew folksongs as the basis of a serious art-form. Well before Kodály and Bartók in Hungary, Engel went out to the shtetls of eastern Europe, writing down the villagers' songs and then composing music inspired by his excursions. This first-ever album of his music reveals the melodic immediacy of these songs...
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"As a member of the Jewish community as well as an ethnomusicologist in pre-war Russia, Moshe Beregovski had not only the inspiration to preserve the spirit and vitality that filled the lives of his people, but also the professional training to document his findings to exacting standards. Here translated into English for the first time are some of his responses to Jewish folk music in its living context during the 1930s, including essays on Ukrainian...
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