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Humorous drawing of a 19th-century beadle with mace (staff), artist unknown, Punch (the British magazine), v. 18, p. 230 (1850). A beadle, sometimes spelled bedel, is an official who may usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational or ceremonial duties on the manor.
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"Moshe" is from the original 1960 English translation of Night. Moshe the Beadle is: Moché-le-Bedeau in Elie Wiesel's La Nuit (1958), the French edition from which Night originated; Moshe in Night 1960, 1982; Moshe, Moishele and Moishe in Wiesel's All Rivers Run to the Sea (1995, 2010); Moshe in Elie Wiesel: Conversations (2002); and; Moishe ...
His 1889 recording of the song of a white-rumped shama (Kittacincla malabarica) is the first-known recording of bird song. [2] [3] Because he spoke fluent French, he joined military intelligence. After the Armistice in 1918, he became chief delegate for repatriation for the French-occupied zone of Germany. He worked for the German government ...
Musicologists such as Matthew Head and Suzannah Clark believe that birdsong has had a large though admittedly unquantifiable influence on the development of music. [2] [3] Birdsong has influenced composers in several ways: they can be inspired by birdsong; [4] they can intentionally imitate bird song in a composition; [4] they can incorporate recordings of birds into their works; [5] or they ...
Moishe Oysher (Yiddish: משה אוישער) (March 8, 1906 – November 27, 1958) was an American cantor, recording artist, and film and Yiddish theatre actor. [1] During the 1940s and 1950s he was one of the top Hazzans and his recordings continue to be appreciated due to his rich, powerful voice and creative arrangements.
Moisei Beregovsky (1892 – 12 August 1961, Russian: Моисей Яковлевич Береговский, romanized: Moisey Yakovlevich Beregovsky; Yiddish: משה אהרן בערעגאָװסקי, romanized: Moyshe Aron Beregovski) was a Soviet Jewish folklorist, musicologist and ethnomusicologist from the Ukrainian SSR who was a key figure in the study of Jewish music.
Bumble points out the notice to Mr Sowerberry offering Oliver Twist. When the story was first serialised in Bentley's Miscellany in 1837, Mr. Bumble is the cruel and self-important beadle – a minor parish official – who oversees the parish workhouse and orphanage of Mudfog, a country town more than 75 mi (121 km) from London [1] where the orphaned Oliver Twist is brought up.