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Midterm 2 Flashcards

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Ellis Island

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Minimal possessions; fear of police; would rather jump into water than return to Russia; complicated changes of immigration laws

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Letter Songs: (5)

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“Sleep My Child”, “Long Live Columbus”, “Ellis Island”, “My Green Cousin”, “Letter to Mother”

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“Sleep My Child” (composer, 1 detail)

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Sholom Alechem; wondrous reuniting with father who went to America

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“Long Live Columbus” (1 detail)

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Optimism and Pessimism

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“Ellis Island” (1 detail(2))

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Do you know the language? Do you know a trade?

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“My Green Cousin” (1 detail)

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Greenhorn worn out from factory work

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“A Letter to Mother” (1 detail)

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Letter FROM mother to son, who forgot mother because he acquired wealth and married. Mother dies.

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HIAS (acronym; 2 functions)

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Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society [ published newspapers, lobbied for fair legislation]

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Landsmanshaft (3 details)

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Social community; offered burial, pensions, legal protection; crazy rules: behavior, marriage, communism

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Boarders

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boarder at wife’s taken in to live

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Nativism

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Thoughts that new immigrants would degrade modern American society

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Jewish Daily Forward

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Only Jewish paper still existing today; made famous by the Bundt

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Jacob Gordin

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Artist that added realism and melodrama to Goldfaden’s work; tried to make the theatre more sophisticated

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Maurice Schwartz

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Created Yiddish Art Theatre; focus on classical works such as Shakespeare and Ibsen

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Boris Tomashevsky (3 details)

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Student of Goldfaden’s who left for U.S first. Considered founder of Yiddish theatre in U.S; constructed works by memory with improv; first success was “The Witch”

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Joseph Rumshinsky (career, (3) songs)

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Published but did not create “Eli, Eli”; wrote for both vaudeville and serious opera; 3 songs [ Triangle Fire; Motl the Operator]

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Sholom Secunda (3 songs)

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“Dona Dona”, “To Me, You’re So Handsome”, “My Green Cousin”

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Alexander Olshanetsky (career, experience, 3 songs)

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Had both a traditional and secular background; Russian choral master; U.S: Yiddish theatre cantorial styles; “Bar Kochba”, “Belz, Belz”, Shmaltz

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“Bar Kochba”

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written by Olshanetsky; banned in Russia because of insight of uprising [ history of revolt against Romans]

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Abraham Ellstein [ beginnings, 4 songs, one production]

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Began as accompanist to Yessele Rosenblatl; Titanic song, Molly Picon’s “Mamele, Abi Gezunt, Der Nayer Sher, Yidl Mitn Fidl”

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Molly Picon

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famous female Yiddish actor; reverse trouser role

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The Jazz Singer

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Al Jolson; blackface; mix between tradition and popular jazz singer

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Yidl Mit’n Fidl

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Father and daughter go as a duet performing, daughter [ molly picon] as a boy

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“Mamele”

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Song about a mother who is so busy taking care of children, she forgets what it means to be a woman

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Yessele Rosenblatt

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greatest cantorial singer

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Irving Berlin

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wrote many great works including “White Christmas”

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Zionism

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movement to reclaim state of Israel, slowest to take hold in immigrant communities because of the idealistic, not here and now. However it did serve as a kind of overall purpose, and backlash to the forced ideas of assimilation. It gave an identity Howe: how they lived

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Triangle Fire

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Triangle shirtwaist factory; many young women died; a notice to the poor working conditions, and a spark to the labor movement

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Morris Winchevsky [political views, song, reception]

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Socialist, anarchist, communist; first labor poet, joined with Cahan for “The Forward”, song “The Future”; very abstract and general, not successful because people weren’t ready for his message

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David Edelshtat [background, political views, tone of poems, at least 3 poems, reception]

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second labor poet, worked in harsh conditions in Russia; joined socialist movement, angry poems “In Kamf”, “Working Women”, “Awake!”, “My Testament”, great reception because he connected with his audience

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Morris Rosenfield [ standing, background, 2 songs]

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Best labor poet, personal connections- 10 years in sweatshops– 2 songs: “My little boy”, “My Resting Place”

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Abraham Reisen [ themes, tone (3 songs)]

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passionate to throw oppression; “Rampage”, “The Wall”, “War”

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Terezin (Theresienstadt)

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Concentration camp

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Brundibár

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Children’s opera formed in Terezin concentration camp

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Yom Ha’Shoah

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Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Henry Ford

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Strong anti-semitism; progressed the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, but also apologized; “since Henry Ford apologized to Me”

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Protocols of the Elders of Zion

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conspiracy that the Jewish diaspora means that Jews slowly rise the ranks of all nations and then obtain world domination

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Reich Chamber of Music (Reichsmusikkammer)

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Only good German music allowed; composed by Aryans, not even Debussy, who married a Jew could remain on the program.

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Ghettos

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poor living conditions separate places in city for Jews to live

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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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Largest single revolt by the Jewish resistance in Poland that failed eventually due to poor armament and supplies

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Father Charles Coughlin

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Roman Catholic; began radio program eventually anti- semitic, started the Christian Front

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Christian Front

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Spurred by Coughlin; targeted Jews and ideas of communism– against organized labor movements

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Postville

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Kosher meat packaging plant containing Latino illegal immigrants, and bad working conditions. Controversy on whether or not the plant was singled out because of anti-semitism.

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Hekhsher Tzedek

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Updated kosher certification including working conditions and ethics

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Fusgaver

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Emigration of Jews from Romania; awful conditions, early 1900’s.

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Klezmer

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Jewish more modern party music; hard to define. SECULAR

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Mambo

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general term for much latino music adapted and created in the U.S.

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Catskills

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proving grounds for early musicians

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The Palladium

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dance hall for famous music, focus on Mambo

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Mambonik

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A Jewish person obsessed with Mambo

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East Harlem

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Upper Manhattan barrio; latino harlem

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Perez Prado

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Famous cuban band leader known as “The King of Mambo”

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Mordechai Gerbirtig [ 2 songs]

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Yiddish Poet, “It’s burning”, “song of the unemployed”

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Hirsh Glik

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wrote anthem promoting resistance and endurance

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Vaudeville style

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minstrelsy; random unrelated theatre acts

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WEVD

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American news talk radio program; socialist, included the “Forward”

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Charly and his orchestra

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musical propaganda posing as Nazis and making fun of them

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Aryan

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blonde hair, blue eyes, german perfect race

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Der Ewige Jude

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The Eternal Jew: Nazi propaganda film supporting “The Protocols…”

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Treblinka

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Song referencing concentration camp nakedness, brothers across the world cannot feel our pain

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Al Jolson

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traditional Jew become famous Jazz Singer, blackface, “The Jazz Singer”

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Hanns Eisler

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austrian composer of GDR national anthem and film scores; exiled to U.S by Nazis, Exiled from U.S because of communism

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Lin Jaldati

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Well known Yiddish singer and actor; helped organize Yiddish culture festival in Germany post WWII, family knew the Franks

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GDR (acro, expanse)

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German Democratic Republic; East Germany under control of Soviets, except West Berlin

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Doina/ Doyna

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Romanian musical style/tune with free rhythm, improvisation based on stretching notes and vertical, keeping fixed melody

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Bulgar

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dance type from bulgaria

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Naftule Brandwein

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Famous Klezmer clarinetist

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Howe: How they lived;

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Catskills, family life, landsman shaft,belief, secularization, Zionism

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Sapoznik: Yiddish Music In the New World

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People preferred Yiddish theatre elements, landsman shaft–>weddings, tomashevsky, gordin etc.

Yiddish and the Jewish Experience (3 decks)

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