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DI YIDDISHE AMERIKE: YIDDISH AS A REFLECTION OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE U N I T 3 A PROGRAM OF THE LOWELL MILKEN FUND FOR AMERICAN JEWISH MUSIC AT THE UCLA HERB ALPERT SCHOOL OF MUSIC UNIT 3: DI YIDDISHE AMERIKE 2 Who in your family

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DI YIDDISHE AMERIKE: YIDDISH AS A REFLECTION OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE

A PROGRAM OF THE LOWELL MILKEN FUND FOR AMERICAN JEWISH MUSIC AT THE UCLA HERB ALPERT SCHOOL OF MUSIC

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Who in your family history immigrated to the United States, when, and from where? Why did they choose to leave their homeland and come to the U.S.?

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TIMELINE OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

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TIMELINE OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

“For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotr y no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens…”

G e o r g e Wa s h i n g t o n , Le t t e r to Mo s e s Se i x a s , Au g u s t 17 , 17 9 0

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TIMELINE OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

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TIMELINE OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

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IRVING BERLIN (ISRAEL BEILIN)

  • Born May 23, 1888 in Tolochin, Vitebsk Governorate,

Russian Empire (presumed)

  • Died September 2 2, 1989 in New York City
  • Immigrated to U.S. in 1893, age 5

"Ir ving Berlin has no place in American music—he is American music." (zamir.org) Jerome Kern, composer

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“JAKE , JAKE THE YIDDISHER BALL PL AYER” (1913)

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ALBERT VON TIL ZER

  • Born Albert Gumm, March 29,

1878 in Indianapolis, IN

  • Died on October 1, 1956 in Los

Angeles

  • Top Tin Pan Alley tune writer

and composer for films in the 1920's and 30's.

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“WHAT KIND OF AMERICAN ARE YOU?” (1917)

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ALBERT VON TILZER: 1878 — 1956

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JOSEPH RUMSHINSKY

  • Born in 1881 near Vilna, Lithuania
  • Died in 1956, in the United States
  • Along with Sholom Secunda,

Alexander Olshanetsky and Abraham Ellstein, he is considered one of the "big four" composers and conductors of American Yiddish theater.

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“LONG LIVE THE LAND OF THE FREE” (1911)

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HENRY RUSSOTTO

  • Born in 1869, Belarus, as Chaim

Niswitszki

  • Died in 1928 in New York
  • Immigrated to U.S. in 1891, age

20

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“MAYN AMERIKE”

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“GOD BLESS AMERICA”

  • Berlin originally wrote the song in 1918

while serving in the U.S. Army at Camp Upton in Yaphank, NY.

  • Revised, reissued on Armistice Day,

1938

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“WATCH (VATCH) YOUR STEP”

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עניזוק ענירג יד | THE GREENHORN COUSIN

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רעדירב עלא | “ALE BRIDER” | ALL BROTHERS

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CANTOR SARAH MYERSON

  • ןזח א יורפ א ,
  • 'A Cantor, A Woman'
  • Studied Yiddish language at the Uriel Weinreich

Program at YIVO in New York, the Beit Ben Yehuda Winter Intensive Program in Jerusalem and the Naomi Prawer Kadar International Summer Program in Tel Aviv.

  • Actively working to bridge the worlds of Jewish

religion and Yiddish culture.

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MANDY PATINKIN

  • “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”
  • “God Bless America”
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Stories of Music is brought to you by

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For centuries, Jews have come to America from all parts of the globe, bringing with them the mu- sical and cultural heritages of their countries of birth. Then things changed. How has the American experience shaped Jewish life and culture in America? Understanding the evolving nature of Jewish Music helps shed light (and sound) on that question.

Learn more at: https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/resources/lowell-milken-fund-for-american-jewish-music/

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With more than 600 works by 200 composers, the Milken Archive of Jewish Music is one of the largest collections of music and historical materials devoted to exploring the American Jewish experience.

Learn more at: www.milkenarchive.org

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This lesson was created by:

Rabbi Barry Lutz, M.Ed, Curriculum Consultant Mark Kligman, PhD, Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music, Chair, Department of Ethnomusicology, Director of Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music, Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Cantor Hinda Labovitz, Ohr Kodesh

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