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Film, Video An-sky Yiddish Heritage Ensemble: Klezmer & Other Yiddish Music from New York

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Title

  • An-sky Yiddish Heritage Ensemble: Klezmer & Other Yiddish Music from New York

Summary

  • The An-sky Yiddish Heritage Ensemble -- renowned Yiddish folk singers Michael Alpert and Ethel Raim, tsimblist (hammered dulcimer player) Pete Rushefsky and violinist Jake Shulman-Ment -- celebrates the hundredth Anniversary of the historic An-sky Expedition. This 1911-1914 ethographic expedition systematically documented the Jewish folk culture of dozens of communities in Ukraine and White Russia. It is named for its leader, Yiddish writer and folklorist Semyon An-sky, pen name of Shloyme Zaynvl Rapoport (1863-1920), who is best known as the author of the groundbreaking play "The Dybbuk."

Names

  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body
  • Library of Congress

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2013-06-26.

Headings

  • -  Culture, Folklife
  • -  Culture, Performing Arts

Notes

  • -  Classification: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation.
  • -  Classification: Music and Books on Music.
  • -  Classification: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion.
  • -  Classification: Social Sciences.
  • -  Pete Rushefsky, Ethel Raim, Jake Shulman-Ment, Michael Alpert.
  • -  Recorded on 2013-06-26.
  • -  Librarians, Archivists.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021689154

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

American Folklife Center, Sponsoring Body, and Library Of Congress. An-sky Yiddish Heritage Ensemble: Klezmer & Other Yiddish Music from New York. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-26, 2013. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689154/.

APA citation style:

American Folklife Center, S. B. & Library Of Congress. (2013) An-sky Yiddish Heritage Ensemble: Klezmer & Other Yiddish Music from New York. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-26. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689154/.

MLA citation style:

American Folklife Center, Sponsoring Body, and Library Of Congress. An-sky Yiddish Heritage Ensemble: Klezmer & Other Yiddish Music from New York. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-26, 2013. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021689154/>.