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In Her Own Hands: How Girls And Women Used The Piano To Chart Their Futures, Expand Women's Roles, And Shape Music In America, 1880–1920, Sarah F. Litvin Sep 2019

In Her Own Hands: How Girls And Women Used The Piano To Chart Their Futures, Expand Women's Roles, And Shape Music In America, 1880–1920, Sarah F. Litvin

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American girls and women used the parlor piano to reshape their lives between 1880 and 1920, the years when the instrument reached the height of its commercial and cultural popularity. Newspapers, memoirs, biographies, women’s magazines, personal papers, and trade publications show that female pianists engaged in public-facing piano play and work in pursuit of artistic expression, economic gain, self-actualization, social mobility, and social change. These motivations drove many to use their piano skills to play beyond the parlor, by studying in conservatory, working as classical and popular music performers and composers, founding and teaching at schools, working as department store …


August 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Aug 2019

August 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Kiddish Levana; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Community Notices


July 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Jul 2019

July 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Maine-ly Jewish Storytelling Festival; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Community Notices


June 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Jun 2019

June 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Shavout with Rabbi Erica Asch; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Community Notices


May 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center May 2019

May 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Lag B'omer; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Commmunity Notices


The Musical World Of Joseph Rumshinsky’S Mamele, D. A. Geller May 2019

The Musical World Of Joseph Rumshinsky’S Mamele, D. A. Geller

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“The Musical World of Joseph Rumshinsky’s Mamele” consists of a set of three cases studies that demonstrate the enormous need and potential for further Yiddish theater music scholarship. There exists little Yiddish theater scholarship that addresses music in any meaningful way: scholars like David Lifson, Nahma Sandrow, and Joel Berkowitz tend to view Yiddish theater’s rich musical traditions as a footnote in the larger history of Yiddish theater’s dramatic development. Yet Yiddish theater music developed independently from Yiddish drama, and therefore needs to be studied from a primarily musical perspective. I connect scholarship across the fields of Jewish studies …


April 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Apr 2019

April 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Café shalom; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcents; Book Group; Community Notices


March 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Mar 2019

March 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Purim Perogies; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Community Notices


February 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Feb 2019

February 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Shabbat Together; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Community Notices


January 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Jan 2019

January 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Tu B'Shavat; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Book Group; MLK Day; Announcements; Dr.Elcha Buckman Happiness and Humor; Community Notices


December 2018, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Dec 2018

December 2018, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Mega-Chanukah Party; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Book group; Anouncements; Community Notices


November 2018, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Nov 2018

November 2018, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Shab-bates; From the Rabbi; President's Message, Maine State Museum Tour; Book Group; Announcements; Community Notices


October 2018, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Oct 2018

October 2018, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Shabbat in the Woods; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Book Group; Announcements; Community Notices


September 2018, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Sep 2018

September 2018, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Erev Rosh Hashanah Sacred Music Concert; Simchat Torah; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Community Notices


August 2018, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Aug 2018

August 2018, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Kiddush Levana; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Community Notices


July 2018, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Jul 2018

July 2018, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Maine-ly Jewish Storytelling Festival; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Community Notices


June 2018, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Jun 2018

June 2018, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Eléonore Weill Visits; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Bat Mitvahs; Person of the Year; Community Notices


May 2018, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center May 2018

May 2018, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Café Shalom; From the Rabbi; Presidents Message; Announcements; Book Group; Community Notices; Food,Film and Commentary; Passover Seder Success


From Swing King To Swing Kids: The Jazz Era Of ‘Big Band Orchestras’ In World War Ii, Katie Victoria Burnopp Apr 2018

From Swing King To Swing Kids: The Jazz Era Of ‘Big Band Orchestras’ In World War Ii, Katie Victoria Burnopp

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Known as the ‘King of Swing’, clarinetist and band leader Benny Goodman (1909-1986) threatened the Nazi cause during WWII. With intent of improving music pedagogy, the purpose of this research was to investigate swing music during World War II. The particular problems of this study were to: (1) identify how the swing music of Benny Goodman (1909-1986) influenced adolescents in the United States of America, United Kingdom, and Germany; (2) explore the Nazi party view on ‘swing’ music of the era; (3) examine how the music of Charlie and his Orchestra became used as a tool for Nazi propaganda; and …


Jud Ms 04 Rosalyne S. Bernstein Papers Finding Aid, Susannah Clark Mar 2018

Jud Ms 04 Rosalyne S. Bernstein Papers Finding Aid, Susannah Clark

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Rosalyne (Spindel) Bernstein (b. 1928) grew up in the Bronx, N.Y. and Fall River, MA, the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Poland, and attended Radcliffe College as an economics major. She and her husband, Sumner Thurman Bernstein (a Portland native), moved to Portland in 1949. There, she played an active role in the community and was involved with numerous organizations, such as: National Council of Jewish Women (president); Head Start program in Portland (founder); Bowdoin College; University of Southern Maine; Maine Health Care Finance Commission; Maine Medical Center; American- Israeli Public Affairs Committee; New England Board of Higher Education; …


Jud Ms 05 Sumner T. Bernstein Papers Finding Aid, Susannah Clark Mar 2018

Jud Ms 05 Sumner T. Bernstein Papers Finding Aid, Susannah Clark

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Sumner Thurman Bernstein (1924 - 2002) grew up in Portland, Maine, the son of lawyer parents. He served in the South Pacific in the U.S. Army during World War II (achieving the rank of Captain) and attended Harvard University for his undergraduate education and for law school. He returned to Portland after marrying Rosalyne Spindel in 1949, to join his father and uncle’s law practice, which he helped to grow into Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer and Nelson in 1964. He was very engaged with the community, participating in the following organizations, among others, often serving as president or chair of …


The Bronx Was Brewing: A Digital Resource Of A Lost Industry, Michelle Zimmer Feb 2018

The Bronx Was Brewing: A Digital Resource Of A Lost Industry, Michelle Zimmer

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The Bronx: a bucolic oasis laden with history, a suburb within city-limits, an urban warzone, and thanks to the recent renaissance, a phoenix of progress rising from the proverbial ashes of the fires that burned through the borough in the 1970’s. But many people are unaware that the Bronx also brewed.
Uncovering the brewing industry of the Bronx tells not only the story of the lost industry, but it also communicates the narrative of the development of the Bronx. The brewers were German immigrants who developed a thriving industry by introducing lager beer to the United States by taking advantage …


December 2017, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Dec 2017

December 2017, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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November 2017, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Nov 2017

November 2017, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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October 2017, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Oct 2017

October 2017, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Simchat Torah; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Rabbi Darah Lerner Visits; Community Notices


September 2017, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Sep 2017

September 2017, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Shabbat in the Woods; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Community Notices


Lg Ms 042 Am Chofshi Archives, Anthony Marvullo Aug 2017

Lg Ms 042 Am Chofshi Archives, Anthony Marvullo

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The Am Chofshi Archives were donated by Gail Kass and Susan Horowitz in 2004. Kass was Am Chofshi’s treasurer and as such these archives contain financial documents and fundraising materials, some of which are restricted.

Total Boxes: 3

Linear Feet: 4.25


August 2017, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Aug 2017

August 2017, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Kiddush Levana; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Book Group; Announcements; Community Notices


July 2017, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Jul 2017

July 2017, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Maine-ly Jewish Storytelling Festival; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Book Group; Announcments; Inconvient Artifacts; Federation Report; Community Notices


June 2017, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Jun 2017

June 2017, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Shabbat Together; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Book Group; Announcements; Community Notices