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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 …
Pnina Salzman
… to conquer concert stages in Europe and in Asia in the early 1940's, even before the establishment of the State of … But I fancy an innate sensibility and vitality of musical mind and feeling will preserve her from all that.” ( … Academy of Music, The First Fifty Years: Studies in the History of Higher Music Education in Israel 1945–1995 …
Leon Schidlowsky
… generation of composers at The Rubin Israel Academy of Music at Tel-Aviv University in the 1970's and 1980's, … Room ; Dybbuk (1994); and Absalom (1996) are a few of his nearly 200 Darmstadt-influenced works. They bear many textual references to the history of the Jewish people and to distinct Israeli …
Israel Adler
… the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études and at the Institut de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and … siècles (2 vols. Paris-La Haye, 1966). Already in this early work, Adler utilized his librarianship skills by … texts, Adler unraveled unknown sources about Western music history that were buried under the Hebrew alphabet. In this …
Mordechai Breuer
… from Germany. In 1942, Breuer studied in a course for music teachers at the Jerusalem Conservatory and received a … affiliated with the secular Zionist enterprise. From the early 1950s, Breuer would lead the Kfar Eliyahu institution … with a BA. and MA. In 1966 he received a doctorate in the history of Israel. For about ten years he taught and managed …
Andre Hajdu
… after the war at the prestigious Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. There he studied under Endre Szervánszky … Judaic a librarian at the National Library in Paris. In the early 1960s Adler returned to Israel to found the Department … Besides Jewish texts, he was deeply interested in Jewish history. His ‘miniature opera’ for children Ludus paschalis …