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Jan Peerce
Jan Peerce (birth name Jacob Pincus Perelmuth) was born in New York City in 1904.…
Mordekhai Hershman
Mordekhai (Mordecai; Mordkhe) Hershman was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov…
Nahum Nardi
Nahum Nardi was born Nahum Narodietzky in 1901 to a religious-Zionist family in Kiev,…
Joseph Achron
Joseph Achron was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania. His musical genius…
Meir Shimon Geshuri
Meir Shimon Geshuri (née Bruckner; April 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli…
Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961)
1 CD, accompanied by Hebrew and English program notes and texts. Selections of…
Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle
A collection of life-cycle songs: birth, circumcision, wedding etc., sung in Ladino. All…
Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle
An introduction to the folk songs of the Judeo-Spanish speaking Jewish communities of…
The composer was courageous, but not as much as in myth.
In summer 1948, Sostakovic composed the song cycle (From Jewish folk poetry), his first…