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Esther Rokhl Kaminska
… stage and film actress, who cofounded the Warsaw Yiddish Art Theater in the 1920s, and, in 1946, following the Second …
Karel Berman
… After extensive musical education, Karel Berman started his career as a bass singer of opera in Opava. In … 1943, Berman was deported to Theresienstadt, where he took part in cultural life as a singer, composer and director. On … 1961–71, and from 1964 at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. See the list of Berman's works here . Full …
Moshe Havusha
… sees himself as one of those who are preserving the ancient art of traditional payytanut and passing on the skills and …
Shelomo Morag
… Shlomo Morag was an Israeli professor at the department of Hebrew Language at the Hebrew University of …
Kol beru’e ma’ala umata
… of the expulsion from Spain, composed a poem that starts "Meromam 'al kol brakha u-tehilah" on the pattern of …
Kamti lehallel leshem hael hanikhbad
… 1950, p. 3). The poem opens with a two-line stanza, part of which functions thereafter as a refrain (" va-azamer …
Yigdal elohim hay
… Each stanza encapsulates one of Maimonides' Thirteen Articles of Faith. With its 6/8 dance rhythm and the …
Az yashir Moshe (Song of the Sea; Exodus 15) (2 versions)
… that are still sung by the Western Sephardi Jews, most particularly by those from New York City (see Salomon 1969). …
Yevarekhekha
… recording, Rev. Lopes Cardozo sings alternatively the part of the hazzan , the priests (with an echo, as if they …
Va-ya'al Moshe me- 'arbot Mo'ab (Deuteronomy 34)
… of the masoretic accents called the "high ne'um". This particularly moving cantillation is used on the festival of …