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Alexander L. Ringer
… Alexander L. Ringer was an American research musicologist and educator of Dutch and Polish descent. He … eastern influences on Western music throughout time; the history of Jewish music and Jewish influences into Western … and edited a volume in the Music and Society series, 'The Early Romantic Era - Between Revolutions: 1789 and 1848.' …
Avraham Soltes
… life: Judica; the struggle in Palestine to forge an Israel; Music, in all shapes and forms. Even as a rabbinical student … week after week, he interwove the threads of Israeli history and culture with its musical heritage and that of … one. He thought that awareness of the common roots of its early development with those of Christianity holds the hope …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … a Writer-Musicologist,” circa 1970), Geshuri described his early childhood in the all-Christian Dańdówka in terms of … of articles titled “Lekorot haniggun hahassidi” (“Towards a history of the Hassidic niggun” 1930-1937) and produced, as …
Samuel Naumbourg
… professional hazzanim in his family. He received his formal musical education in Munich where he was recruited to sing in Maier Kohn ’s synagogue choir. Naumbourg’s early appointments included a cantorial post in Besançon and … introduction, giving an unprecedented overview of the history of religious Jewish music. Another of Naumbourg’s …
Joseph Shlisky
… had come to assume choirmaster duties there. Shlisky’s early years in Toronto were not easy. The cantor, who … a means of support. Shlisky never heard a note of Western music until his rise, but joined the Toronto Waves … which dramatized important events in Biblical and Jewish history followed by cantorial performances. Shlisky brought …
Nahum Heiman
… life in this country. It is the mirror of time, spirit and history of our life as human beings and the life of the … has won the right to become one of the priests of Hebrew music.' It is not for nothing that Natan Yonatan calls Nahum … when he was seventeen. He took up the accordion due to his nearly paralyzed hand. In time, he recovered from his hand …
Joseph Roman Cycowski
… Cycowski was a singer of opera and popular music in Europe, and a cantor in the United States. Cycowski born into a Hasidic family in Lodz, Cycowski's early musical training came as a choirboy (meshorer). He … Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Palm Springs. See "Oral history interview with Josef (Roman) Cycowski " detailing …
Reuben Rinder
… United States and pursued his study of Jewish liturgical music. In 1910, Rinder held a cantorial position at Temple … insights from the Rinder papers and Rose Rinder’s oral history (UC Berkeley), this paper connects Rinder’s approach … Binder, Leon Kramer, and Lazare Saminsky ) built upon his early connections with Steven Wise and was modeled after …
Haim Effendi
… In spite of his unparalleled fame as a singer and musician during his lifetime, very few details about the … critical era of deep social and cultural transition in the history of the Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old … uncommonly large number of commercial recordings from the early 20th century, speaks of his fame. This reputation is …
Eliakum Zunser
… lived prior to moving to Vilna, where he was born. In his early youth he attended the 'Heder' and sang with cantor … He was the first badhan to have a rudimentary knowledge of music. By his personal qualities he raised the profession of … Vilna, and he was encouraged to study Hebrew literature and history. After his second marriage Zunser lived chiefly in …