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Ades Synagogue
… many Jews emigrated from Syria to various countries, particularly the U.S., England, different Latin American countries, and Palestine, where most of these … tradition. In Jerusalem, the Ades community maintains the musical tradition of the Aleppine Jews. Each Shabbat is …

Yippee
… Yippee is a documentary film directed by and starring American actor and director Paul Mazursky. In this film, for … fallback of the film is the lack of documentation of the music and prayers which accompany the festive holiday. In … scene is mostly lost because of the use of extra-diegetic music that almost completely covers the prayers. Towards the …
Zalmen Mlotek
… Zalmen Mlotek is an American conductor, pianist, musical arranger, accompanist, composer, and the Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene …
Moshe Cordova
… m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … the early twentieth century, Jewish singers from various quarters of Istanbul, as well as from various cities of the … France, and later South America. Cordova and Algazi became partners during these years, and recorded Ottoman Hebrew …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… the Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played … role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … set the first line of the prayer (divided into two parts) that encapsulates its main theme: Part one: שְׁמַע …
Robert Lachmann
… It was there that Lachmann was first exposed to non-Western music and folklore, and he began working on transcriptions … to 1933 Lachmann worked as a librarian for the music department of the Berlin State Library, heading a project to … Music. Lachmann was appointed the editor of their quarterly journal, Zeitschrift für vergleichende …
Bessie Schonberg
… Germany in December 1906, the youngest of three girls. Her American born mother, Rose MacGrew married Alexander … Schönberg, then an engineering student, while studying music in Germany. When Bessie Schönberg was very young the … mother. She moved to Dresden with the three girls at the start of World War I. At age seventeen, Schönberg moved to …

Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… by Ascap Today as, 'a major force in today's liturgical music.' Issachar Miron has made a name for himself … old. His father, Shlomo Michrowski, an owner of a local department store, a rabbi, and a violinist by education, … and a winner of the Israel Engel Prize for Music . The American musicologist Dr. Rudolf Ganz included in his …
Mordechai Yardeni (Motl Sherman)
… yeshiva Mishkan Israel. Later he enrolled in The School of Music and Drama. As a writer, Sherman made his debut writing … newspaper ' Yiddishe Welt' began to publish his musical and theatrical reviews. In February 1930, at the … of Leo Liov (Leo). He also published collections of articles: Interviews mit Yiddish Schreiber (Interviews of …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … in the Hapoel Hamizrachi movement, a religious socialist party within the Zionist movement. A thorough evaluation of … Hassidic music (“Haneginah haḥasidit,” Sefer Hashanah: The American Hebrew Yearbook 1 [1931], 74–87). Geshuri dismissed …