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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 …
Jacob Bachman
… performances with Rubinstein, who was considered the 'westerner of Russian music,'* Bachmann choose a career in … in these pieces was influenced by Rubinstein and employed western musical devices. In his memoirs, Cantor Pinchas …
Alexander Uria Boscovich
… preached for a distinct local style that would synthesize Western tradition with Mediterranean and specifically Mizrahi …
Jacob Bauer
… temple in Vienna . Founder and first editor of the Oesterreichisch-Ungarische Kantoren-Zeitung (1881-1898). …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… associated with the Jewish community of Dubno (today in western Ukraine), but although he officially served there as …
Israel Goldfarb
… tradition, associated with Orthodox Judaism; and the Western European Jewish music, which was connected with …
Joseph Michael Gusikow
… of the first known Klezmer musicians to appear before a Western audience. For an expanded biography and information …