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...ic Society School]], where he received [[bassoon]] and composition lessons from [[Alexander Ilyinsky]]. He played bassoon, [[timpani]] and [[violin]] in th ...er famous tubercular patients, [[Maxim Gorky]] and [[Anton Chekhov]].{{sfn|Slonimsky|2002|loc=156}} Exhausted, he died of tuberculosis on 11 January 1901, just ...

...d in the "tension" over visas needed to flee: the two factions were "those from Lithuanian versus Polish Yeshivot;"<ref>{{cite book |author=Efraim Zuroff ...rev.php?id=5958}}</ref> control of the ''Kobe committee'' was by "students from the Polish yeshivot."<ref>{{cite book |title=Yad VaShem studies (Volume 13) ...

...oviet Union]] invaded Poland in September 1939 she made a perilous journey from the Soviet occupied part of the country to [[Warsaw]] to join the undergrou ...age des Warschauer Gettos''. pp.&nbsp;47, illus. Berlin: VVN-Verlag, 1949 (from: [[Commentary (magazine)]], New York). Also in: ''Neue Auslese.'' ed. Allii ...

| birth_place= [[Talne|Talnoye]], [[Umansky Uyezd]], [[Kiev Governorate]], [[Russian Empire]]<br>(now Talne, Ukraine) ...courier-journal/ |archive-date=November 9, 2022 |quote=He was a Jewish boy from Russia who had made good. |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> famed for his pas ...

Sketches for an unfinished sixth symphony from the 1940s exist. * ''Under the Waxing Moon'', 4 Songs from a Child's World after Poetry by Rabindranath Tagore, Op. 95 (1925) ...

...rs of [[Haredi Judaism]] in [[Israel]], where he spent his final 20 years, from 1933 to 1953. ...1, 1952 | quote=His name is Rabbi Abraham Yeshayahu Karelitz. He came here from Lithuania eighteen years ago. He never has been ordained as a rabbi and he ...

...ere the product of the Russian system of music education. Schillinger came from this background, dedicated to creating professional musicians, having been ...s=102–115|doi=10.1093/mq/xxxiii.1.102}}</ref> Some of Gershwin's notebooks from his studies with Schillinger are at the [[Library of Congress]]. ...

Young Liebstein was attracted to socialist politics from his teens. While imbibing all the ideological currents in the vibrant New Y When Stalin purged Bukharin from the Soviet [[Politburo]] in 1929, Lovestone suffered the consequences. A vi ...

...ife managed.<ref>[https://www.judaica.com/books.html# Chofetz Chaim]</ref> From 1864 to 1869 he taught [[Talmud]] in [[Minsk]] and [[Vasilishki|Vashilishok ...is, Miriam Freida, who was more than thirty years younger than him. It was from this marriage that his son Aharon Kagan and his daughter Feigl Chaya Sacks ...

...osmopolitanism|cosmopolitan]] thinker; his music was officially suppressed from 1930 onwards. ...ire. There are three autobiographies by Roslavets that differ considerably from one another. In one of them, published 1924, the composer deliberately misr ...

...Kijé'']], the ballet [[Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev)|''Romeo and Juliet'']]—from which "Dance of the Knights" is taken—and ''[[Peter and the Wolf]].'' Of th ...]] of the [[Ballets Russes]]. Diaghilev commissioned three further ballets from Prokofiev—''[[Chout]],'' ''[[Le Pas d'acier (Prokofiev)|Le pas d'acier]]'' ...

| foot_montage ='''From the top to the left:''' View of Chelyabinsk, Trinity Church, TDK Building, ...on|seventh-largest city]] in Russia, with a population of over 1.1 million people, and the second-largest city in the [[Ural Federal District]], after [[Yeka ...

...y]]'s [[Hatzohar]] [[political party]]. In 1935, Shamir [[Aliyah|emigrated from]] [[Białystok]] to [[Mandatory Palestine|British Palestine]], where he work ...between 1955 and 1965. Shamir directed [[Operation Damocles]] and resigned from Mossad after Prime Minister [[David Ben-Gurion]] ordered an end to the prog ...