Stempenyu

This article is about the violinist Iosif Druker. For the novel by Sholem Aleichem, see Stempenyu: A Jewish Novel.
Berdychiv Old Synagogue

Stempenyu (Yiddish: סטעמפּעניו, 1822–79) was the popular name of Iosif Druker (יוסף דרוקער), a klezmer violin virtuoso, bandleader and composer from Berdychiv, Russian Empire.[1][2] He was one of a handful of celebrity nineteenth century Jewish folk violinists from Ukraine; others included Aron-Moyshe Kholodenko "Pedotser" (also from Berdychiv) and Yechiel Goyzman "Alter Chudnover" from Chudniv.[3][4][5] Sholem Aleichem loosely based his 1888 novel Stempenyu: A Jewish Novel on the real-life Stempenyu; it was adapted into various stage and film versions in the twentieth century.[6]

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  2. ^ Beregovski, Moshe; Rothstein, Robert; Bjorling, Kurt; Alpert, Michael; Slobin, Mark (2020). Jewish instrumental folk music : the collections and writings of Moshe Beregovski (Second ed.). Evanston, Illinois. p. I7. ISBN 978-1-73261-810-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ Feldman, Walter Zev. "Music: Traditional and Instrumental Music". YIVO Encyclopedia. YIVO. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  4. ^ Beregovski, Moshe; Slobin, Mark (1982). Old Jewish folk music : the collections and writings of Moshe Beregovski. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 536–7. ISBN 081227833X.
  5. ^ Гойзман, Шимон (2018). "2". Воспоминания незнаменитого. Живу, как хочется (in Russian). ЛитРес. ISBN 9785041227975.
  6. ^ Walden, Joshua S. (2014). "The 'Yidishe Paganini': Sholem Aleichem's 'Stempenyu', the Music of Yiddish Theatre and the Character of the 'Shtetl' Fiddler". Journal of the Royal Musical Association. 139 (1): 89–136. doi:10.1080/02690403.2014.886428. JSTOR 43303359. S2CID 162236197.