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...Born in Vilna, Russia, a center of Jewish culture that produced Heifetz, Schneider acquired early experience as a teen-age member of a trio in a local restaurant. The trio occasionally was summoned to play in an upstairs room while a patron made love to a prostitute in full view of the musicians. Undaunted-even by the tip of a bottle of vodka-Schneider sometimes arranged to meet the girl afterward...
...Bonchy runs the show, though he is self-deprecating about his role in the company's 55-year performance. "What attracted you to the industry, Mr. Cohen?" he asks himself aloud. Then he replies: "My father was the boss." Bonchy 's father, David, immigrated to London from Vilna (now in the U.S.S.R.), where, at the age of nine, he was set to work in a cap factory by his father, who spent his own days studying at a synagogue. David mar ried a fellow capmaker, Betsy Pushkin, and 13 years later with his wife and a growing family...
Such Biblical and Talmudic images come naturally to Kovarsky, who was steeped in Jewish dogma and tradition during his childhood in Vilna, Lithuania, was sent to Palestine at 17. His first direct contact with the traditions of his forefathers came while he was working in a kibbutz (collective settlement). There he found a fellow laborer, a Yemenite Jew named Zachariah. who could describe such legendary objects as the ancient Tabernacle so vividly that young Yehoshua was able to draw them. After finishing his art education in Paris, Kovarsky went back to Israel, isolated himself to paint in the ancient city...
Violinist Alexander Schneider, 43, has had a crush on Haydn for 22 years. As a young man, he and three other musicians sat for most of two days and nights playing all of the old master's 83 string quartets, while friends fed and watered them. Vilna-born "Sasha" Schneider has always wanted to repeat the performance-at leisure-for a public audience. Last week he and his new Schneider Quartet wrapped up a cycle of 16 concerts-some 40 hours of music in all-with Haydn's seven quartet interludes for the Lenten season, The Seven Last...
Young Teacher. Ab Cahan was a young teacher in Vilna, and a Marxian Socialist, when the Czar's police began shadowing him. He fled to New York, got work in a cigar factory. To learn English well, 22-year-old Ab Cahan unashamedly went to grade school with children, working nights so that he could do so. He devoted his spare time to the Socialist and labor movements, by 1885 was editing the Socialist weekly Arbeiter Zeitung and writing perceptive short stories about East Side Jews. His novel, The Rise of David Levinsky, written in 1917, is still regarded...