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Mikhail Gnesin
… School . After a tenure of ten years, Gnesin traveled to Germany to help found the Jibneh music publishing house …
Israel Meyer Japhet
… Israel Meyer Japhet was born in Kassel , Germany . In 1853 he began working as choir master and … and harmonically simple and were heavily influenced by German Leid and Protestant hymns. He also published a wide … on the correct cantillation of the Bible according to the German tradition. The most known and widely used of these …
Eliezer S. Abinun
… in Croatian concentration camps and in Auschwitz during the German occupation of Yugoslavia in the Second World War. …
Isaac Offenbach
… editor and translator. He published a Haggadah with a German translation, an appendix of original and traditional melodies (1838), and a Hebrew-German youth prayer book (1839). … Cantor & composer … …
Jacques Offenbach
… career as a cello virtuoso, traveling throughout France and Germany and performing with noted musicians and composers …
Edward Stark
… there in the early 1860’s. The Stark family settled in the German-Jewish community concentrated in the 'East 50’s' of … Stark was active in many associations, including the Germania Quartet Club, an amateur singing group. He composed several operettas for the group, such as “ Germania , oder Traumbild eines Gesang-Vereins” (“ Germania …
Joseph Shlisky
… arias from a variety of schools—Italian, Russian, and German. He also performed his signature rendition of …
Hans Krása
… and arranged lessons for him with the concertmaster of the German opera house in Prague . Krása’s father, a prosperous … often spent their summer vacations. Hans studied at the German Music Academy in Prague , after which he accepted a position as vocal coach at the New German Theater in Prague , under conductor Alexander …
Egon Ledeč
… concertmaster in 1926. He held this post until the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939. Ledeč was an …
Zikmund (Siegmund) Schul
… Zikmund Schul was born on January 11, 1916 in Kassell , Germany . Schul studied composition with Paul Hindemith, until he fled to Prague to seek refuge from German persecution. During the years 1937-38, Schul studied … here on the 'Music and the Holocaust' website. … Jewish German composer, active musically in Theresienstadt … …