Language: Hebrew
Published by Hamakh leKhinukh uleTarbut haGola shel haHistadrut haZiyonit haOlamit [=Department of Education and Culture for the Diaspora of the World Zionist Organization], Tel Aviv, Israel, 1958
Seller: Meir Turner, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. In Hebrew, with Yiddish songs quoted. 93, (1) pages. 188 x 132 mm. Joachim Stutshevski was a composer, performer and researcher of Jewish music. He wrote extensively on klezmer and other Jewish musical topics. A thorough entry on him is in the German Wikipedia. Umfangreiches Biografie Stutschewskys siehe Wikipedia. He studied music in Leipzig, Jena, and Zurich, lived in Vienna from 1924 to 1938 and immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1938. Red cloth with gilt lettering on a black rectangle on cover and spine. Frontispiece of the author and a few other portraits, musical examples with lyrics in Yiddish.