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Mexico: Editorial Independencia. with no dust jacket. 1938. First Edition. softcover. Torn Covers & Spine .
Ensayos Musicales by Kahan, Salomon (inscribed by) - 1956
by Kahan, Salomon (inscribed by)
Ensayos Musicales
by Kahan, Salomon (inscribed by)
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Mexico City: Central Committee, 1956. Wrapper. Good. 300 pages In Yiddish inscribed by author, number taped to spine. Salomon Kahan was a,Yiddish essayist and musicologist. Born in Bialystok, he was educated in Warsaw and Berlin and immigrated to Mexico City in 1921 where he was professor of the history of modern civilization at the Mexican National Teachers' College (192539). He served as music critic for Mexican dailies and, between 1936 and 1964, published five volumes of critical and impressionistic articles on music, written in Spanish. He was editor of Der Veg (Mexico City, 194548), and managing editor of Tribuna Israelita (195365). He played an important role in the cultural life of Mexico's Jewish community and collected his many essays on literature, music, and important Jewish and Mexican personalities in five Yiddish volumes, of which the most significant was his Literarishe un Zhurnalistishe Fartseykhnungen ("Literary and Journalistic Sketches," 1961).Jewish Virtual Library
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- Publisher Central Committee
- Place of Publication Mexico City
- Date Published 1956