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Joseph Shlisky
… gentry as well as its established Jewish families. He delighted audiences with songs that would remain at the core … on the concert stage, including Al Hatzadikim , Omar Raboeliozor , Misrutze Brachamin , and Tikants Shabbos . In 1920 …
Isadore Freed
… inherent in the Jewish treatment of the synagogue mode. He believed that the synagogue mode, unlike the Western …
Heinrich Schalit
… Music ; 'Schalit, Heinrich.' Encyclopaedia Judaica ; Kahn, Eliott. 'The Heinrich Schalit Collection.' Further Reading: …
Julius Chajes
… became known as one of the foremost composers of modern Israeli music. After moving to the United States in 1937, he …
Abraham Dunajewski
… Abraham Dunajewski was born in Russia. He wrote the book Israelitische Tempel Compositionen for Sabbath. His melody for …
Moishe Oysher
… He immigrated to Canada in 1921, where he joined a traveling Yiddish theater company. In 1932, he founded a Yiddish …
Leibele Waldman
… Made many recordings of both liturgical pieces and Yiddish religious folksongs. … Cantor … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – …
Max Helfman
… educator. He had a long career arranging both secular and religious Jewish music and was considered to have a gift for … years; his influence is most strongly felt on the religious music of Reform Judaism. He was also well known for …
Emanuel Zamir
… served in the Israel Defense Forces during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. There he created groups of singers and … played an active role in the development of the Israeli folk dance. Zamir had a sense of mission, which he … from its content and sounds.' Prior to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Zamir toured Arab villages together with a group of …
Rafael Schächter
… in honor of his sixty year remembrance. Schächter delivered several successful performances of Verdi's Requiem …