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Shul or Show? – Golden Age of Cantors

David Olivestone

The huge popularity of cantorial concerts and records during the first half of the 20th century turned the most talented cantors into celebrities. But did they cross the line from prayer to entertainment? David Olivestone...

20th centuryArticlescantorsHigh Holy DaysIssue 54 | September 2020musicNew YorkOdessaWarsaw

Designing a New Jew – Birobidzhan

Ber Kotlerman

In 1928, the Soviets chose to establish an autonomous Jewish region east of Chinese Manchuria, with the city of Birobidzhan as its capital. As in the other Jewish homeland under construction at much the same...

20th centuryarchitectureArticlesIssue 60 | February 2022Russia

The Pied Piper of Yom Kippur – A Lubavitch Tale

Levi Cooper

Variations on a Hasidic story may reveal the fears and doubts of the sixth Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef Schneersohn, who led Chabad through Stalin’s persecutions and two world wars, transplanted it in America, and...

20th centuryAmerican JewsArticlesChabadFestivals of TishreiHasidismHigh Holy DaysIssue 54 | September 2020New YorkRabbisRussia

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Shul or Show? – Golden Age of Cantors

Designing a New Jew – Birobidzhan

The Pied Piper of Yom Kippur – A Lubavitch Tale

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Shul or Show? – Golden Age of Cantors

Designing a New Jew – Birobidzhan

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