Mark Glanville

Review: New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century

They are the heroes of a book that flits between colourful accounts of its protagonists’ world and clinical analyses of the music they played, a reflection of the author’s own double life as performer and academic

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August 27, 2020 13:39

Review: New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century

Sephardi music of a vanished world plays again

A new collection of the music of Alberto Hemsi casts light on the songs of a lost community

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August 20, 2020 11:57

Sephardi music of a vanished world plays again

Book review: A Thousand Kisses

In this excellent book, Raphael's life and verse become as fresh and relevant as the day they were lived and penned

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June 23, 2020 13:43

New play Indecent tells the story of an 'obscene, indecent, immoral, and impure' Yiddish drama

Paula Vogel speaks to the JC about her play about a play

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February 19, 2020 16:04

New play Indecent tells the story of an 'obscene, indecent, immoral, and impure' Yiddish drama

Review: Russia in Flames

This is a familiar story, but one that is meticulously researched and told with the coherence and clarity, writes Mark Glanville

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December 18, 2019 16:53

A crazy attitude to mamaloshen

Mark Glanville responds to James Inverne's recent piece in which he said he 'turned off' to a Yiddish rendition of Fiddler on the Roof songs, and 'all those that think like him' about the Yiddish language

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October 13, 2019 14:23