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Nurit Hirsh
… Additionally, m any of her songs accompany folk dances. These songs came to constitute part of the …
Nahum Heiman
… the student of the composer Matitiyahu Shalem and the dancer Tirza Hodes. He began playing in Hodes's folk dancing … later, Nitzanim, a song that later became a hit and a folk dance, was composed. Nahche ran back to the dance class, and taught his song to the dancers. Then he …
Ehud Manor
… Manor was a member of the working youth movement and he danced folk dances. He was 15 when his father died. Along with the songs …
Harry Von Tilzer
… 'mammy song,' songs about Ireland, songs about the South, dance songs, and many more. In fact, Tilzer's song 'The … was an important catalyst for the rising popularity of the dance song genre in the 1910's. He subsequently wrote many …
Joel Walbe
… settling Zionists in Palestine . He composed Horas (Israeli dance) like 'Hora Medura,' with words by Natan Alterman, …
Mark Isakovich Rabinovich
… now Brusilov, Ukraine). He studied music under the guidance of his grandfather, the klezmer violinist and composer …
Haim (Heinz) Alexander
… style – modal chromaticism – as in his lively six Israeli Dances (1950), and after the “musical shock” (his own term) …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… the whole congregation from deep melancholy to the mood of dance.” Salomon’s son, Hirsch Weintraub (ca. 1813-1881), was …
Tzipora Jochsberger
… in 1939, and studied in the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Moved to the US in 1952, and received a PhD in Jewish …
Yinam Leef
… from his biography on the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance website: 'President of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Yinam Leef (Born in Jerusalem in 1953) is one of the … and Music Education at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, where he has taught since 1985. He was Guest Composer …