(344 results found)
Eliezer S. Abinun
… Sarajevo … London Jewish community … Spanish-Portuguese … Western Sephardic … Eliezer S. Abinun …
Joseph Shlisky
… as a means of support. Shlisky never heard a note of Western music until his rise, but joined the Toronto Waves …
Isadore Freed
… Schalit and more). While rooting the Jewish modes in a Western music theoretical structure, Freed stressed the … mode. He believed that the synagogue mode, unlike the Western major-minor scale system, was characterized by its …
Emanuel Zamir
… water wells. This can be seen in his shepherds' and harvesters' songs that he wrote in reference to the pioneering …
Pavel Haas
… Moravian folksong, Jewish chant, Medieval Chorale, Western European contemporary music, and Jazz. [2] Pavel Haas …
Karel Reiner
… Reiner, composer and pianist, born June 27, 1910 in Žatec (Western Bohemia). Reiner studied law and musicology at the …
Neil Levin
… of focus embrace comparative considerations of eastern and western spheres of Ashkenazi Jewry in terms of their sacred, …
Jo Amar
… Israeli culture, opposing the trend of turning Western music into the defining Israeli music style. …
Jennie Goldstein
… leading role in the Yiddish movie Two Sisters (Tsvaye Shvester) . Late in her career, Goldstein appeared in two …
Haim Effendi
… wool business) was born in Edirne (formerly Adrianople in Western Thrace, today Turkey) in 1853. He spent most of his … by modernizing trends characterized by an exposure to Western culture (most particularly French), to liberal trends …