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Lot #		21085
Auction End Date		6/17/2008 12:21:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)

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Title (English)

Di velt-berihmte Yidishe muziker

Title (Hebrew)

די וועלט-בעריהמטע יידישע מוזיקער

Author

[Only Ed.] Menahem Kipnis

City

Warsaw

Publisher

Bikher-far-ale

Publication Date

1910

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Only edition. 81pp. illus. (ports.) 210:145 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original boards, rubbed. ;

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Description

A work on Jewish composers by Menahem Kipnis (1878–1942), singer, folklore collector, and writer. Born in Ushomir, Ukraine, Kipnis came from a family of hasidic rabbis and hazzanim. As a boy he sang in the choirs of Nissan Spivak ("Nissi Belzer") and Jacob Samuel Morogowsky ("Zeidel Rovner"). In 1901 he went to Warsaw where he completed his musical education, sang in the chorus of the opera, and began to publish articles on various aspects of Jewish music in the major Hebrew and Yiddish newspapers. From 1912 to 1932 he toured Poland, Germany, and France, appearing in concert with his wife and former pupil, Zimra Seligsfeld, in combined lecture-performances of the Jewish folk songs which he had collected and studied. These he published successively in 1918 (60 Folkslider), 1923 (80 Folkslider), and a combined edition 1931 (140 Folkslider), with a parallel edition of 25 tunes with piano accompaniment which appeared between 1924 and 1926. He also published three collections of songs for children, and was active in the Polish cantors organization.

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