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Pages in category "Polish-Jewish culture in New York City" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Edward Verso was born in Brooklyn, New York City, on 25 October 1941 to Philip and Rachel Verso (née Swiss [1]).His father, Philip (or Filippo) worked in the manufacture of clothes and footwear and had emigrated from Sicily with his parents and siblings in 1924, [2] having been born in Riesi.
Polish-Jewish culture in New York City (15 P) Pages in category "Polish-American culture in New York City" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
American Federation for Polish Jews (formerly known as the Federation of Russian-Polish Hebrews or Federation of Polish Jews in America.) was a non-governmental organization founded in 1908 in New York, USA, as the Federation of Russian-Polish Hebrews. Publisher of The Black Book of Polish Jewry in 1943. [1]
Pola Nirenska (28 July 1910 — 25 July 1992), born Pola Nirensztajn, was a Polish performer of modern dance.She had a critically acclaimed if brief career in Austria, Germany, Italy, and Poland in the 1930s before fleeing the continent in 1935 due to rising antisemitism.
Martins was a principal dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet and with the New York City Ballet, where he joined George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and John Taras as balletmaster in 1981. He retired from dancing in 1983, having achieved the rank of danseur noble, becoming Co-Ballet Master-In-Chief with Robbins. From 1990 until January 2018, he ...
Dance Preludes was a ballet made by Miriam Mahdaviani [1] of New York City Ballet to Witold Lutosławski's 1955 music as a pièce d'occasion for the Dancers' Emergency Fund Benefit on 24 February 1991 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center.
Once the dance company was given a stable home at New York City Center, Ballet Society continued to operate separately as a non-profit organization in the service of the School of American Ballet and the New York City Ballet, publishing dance books and developing and funding projects related to the sustenance and encouragement of dance in the ...