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Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa
… production, working with diesel motors imported from Germany. He assiduously expanded his linguistic abilities, taking evening courses in German, something that was to be very useful a few years … time of the German occupation in April 1941, around 50,000 Jews living in Salonika alone. The situation of the Jews …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… music. Born in Myslowitz, Upper Silesia, then part of the German Empire (now Mysłowice, Poland), Geshuri (a name … derived from the Hebrew for “bridge,” an equivalent of the German “Bruck”) was the son of Fruma bat Tzvi and Gita … to Berlin, the rapidly growing hub for Eastern European Jews seeking modern education, studied at a gymnasium and …
Sigmund Schlesinger
… official movement. He was born in Uhlen, Württemberg (later Germany), and received his musical education at a Munich … American composers … Reform Judaism … Organ … Choirmaster … German Jews … Synagogue music … Sigmund Schlesinger …
Kurt Weill
… Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau, Germany in 1900. His father was a cantor and his mother had … works were classified as degenerate. In 1933, Weill left Germany for France, however after a short stay there he … … Hatikva (The Hope, Israel's national anthem) … German Jews … Composer … USA … American composers … Theater music … …
Eliezer S. Abinun
… in Croatian concentration camps and in Auschwitz during the German occupation of Yugoslavia in the Second World War. … retired as senior chazan of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation, London, in 1982, having served the …
Yankele Hershkowitz (Herszkowicz)
… 1944 and then transferred to a labor camp in Braunschweig , Germany where he was liberated in May of 1945. After the … was deeply saddened by the mass immigration of Polish Jews following the anti-Zionist/anti-Semitic purges that …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… European culture and tradition. Christians as well as Jews responded to the vibrancy of his singing, and on at … at the Martin Buber Institute of the University of Cologne, Germany. Its objective is to publish the Hebrew text of … with an English translation, a commentary, the original German text of Hirsch’s brief autobiography (essentially a …
Marcus Hast
… (near Warsaw). After serving as a cantor in Poland and Germany, he moved to London, and worked there as a cantor … De Sola, was from Bevis Marks, the Spanish & Portuguese Jews, in 1857). Now as well as the four Avodas HaKodesh …
Simeon Bar-Isaac
… Born in Mainz, Germany. An important scholar of his time. As a paytan he … and they are marked by the pain of the persecutions of the Jews in Bar-Isaacs' lifetime. Sources: Encyclopedia Judaica …
Else Lasker-Schüler
… Else Lasker-Schüler was a German-Jewish poet and playwright famous for … with the Expressionist movement. Lasker-Schüler fled Nazi Germany and lived out the rest of her life in Jerusalem. … … German-Jewish poet and playwright … 0 … Poet … German Jews … Else Lasker-Schüler …