Arnold Permutter (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Heavy edgewear, but thankfully the music is clean and legible. Pianoforte score with lyrics. VERY HARD TO FIND in any condition. Piano and lyrics. Perlmutter and Wohl were a major composing team in American Yiddish theater.They worked together extensively on operettas, songs, and theatrical scores. Their music was typically written for voice and piano, suitable for stage performance. They were active in the golden age of Yiddish theater (c. 1890-1920) in New York. Yisraels Hofnung ("Israel's Hope") The operetta Yisraels Hofnung (Israel's Hope) is a Yiddish-language operetta connected to the flowering of Jewish nationalist and Zionist sentiment that permeated much of Lower East Side immigrant culture in the early twentieth century. Sheet music from the operetta was featured at Thomashefsky's National Theatre and the known surviving song from it is Shenk mir mein mame ("Give me, my mother").Solomon Small (Shloime Shmulewitz) ? The Lyricist The lyrics for Yisraels Hofnung were contributed by Solomon Small, whose full Yiddish name was Shloime Shmulewitz. Solomon Smulewitz (1868-1943), sometimes known by the anglicized name Solomon Small, was a Russian-born American tenor, folk poet, badkhn (wedding entertainer), playwright, recording artist, and composer for the Yiddish theatre. Thomashefsky's National Theatre The National Theatre was a Yiddish theater at the southwest corner of Chrystie Street and Houston Street in the Yiddish Theater District in Manhattan. When first built it was leased to Boris Thomashefsky and Julius Adler. Its grand opening as the Adler-Thomashefsky National Theatre was on September 24, 1912. The theater was designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb and seated 1,900 when it opened.The title Shenk mir mein mame ? "Grant me my mother" or "Give me back my mother" ? places it squarely in one of the most emotionally charged genres of Yiddish popular song: the mame-lid, or mother song. This was a staple of the Second Avenue stage and of immigrant culture generally. The longing expressed in such songs carried enormous resonance for audiences who had either left elderly mothers behind in the Old Country, or who had lost mothers to poverty, pogroms, or the upheavals of immigration.Interestingly, this title carries a specifically poignant double meaning in the context of the parent operetta Yisraels Hofnung ("Israel's Hope"). The "mother" in such a song could refer both to the literal Jewish mother ? the beloved mame of Eastern European life ? and, on a symbolic level, to Eretz Yisrael itself, the ancient homeland, often poetically figured as the Jewish "mother" to her scattered children.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Heavy edgewear, but thankfully the music is clean and legible. Pianoforte score with lyrics. VERY HARD TO FIND in any condition. Piano and lyrics. Perlmutter and Wohl were a major composing team in American Yiddish theater.They worked together extensively on operettas, songs, and theatrical scores. Their music was typically written for voice and piano, suitable for stage performance. They were active in the golden age of Yiddish theater (c. 1890-1920) in New York. Regina Prager (c. 1866-?) was a prominent Yiddish actress and singer, celebrated as one of the first leading ladies of the Yiddish theatre. Known for her dramatic and flexible voice, she was a true lyric soprano who garnered high praise from audiences during her time on the Yiddish stage. Early Life: She was born in Lemberg (Lviv), Western Galicia, to a pious family and received a strictly religious education. Stage Career: Prager began her career at Yankev Ber Gimpel's Yiddish Theater. She was often described as a "pius" or "reserved" actress, and she was famously noted for playing roles such as the cantor's wife (Di khaznte) with great emotional depth. Reputation: She was a legendary prima donna figure in the early Yiddish theatre and was considered irreplaceable by colleagues who felt that, years after she retired, no other actress could emulate her style.