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Eliezer S. Abinun
… in Croatian concentration camps and in Auschwitz during the German occupation of Yugoslavia in the Second World War. … He was an acknowledged authority on both the liturgical music and the secular Romancero tradition of the Sephardim. …
Isaac Offenbach
… He left his hometown in 1799 to travel as a wandering musician. In his travels he picked up the epithet “der … 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
… was born in Cologne to father Isaac Offenbach , a local music teacher and hazzan. He was identified as a musical prodigy early on, and at the age of four he began to … 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 … years with his brothers in the clothing business, pursuing musical activities in his free time. In April of 1884, Stark … Stark was active in many associations, including the Germania Quartet Club, an amateur singing group. He composed …
Joseph Shlisky
… a means of support. Shlisky never heard a note of Western music until his rise, but joined the Toronto Waves … and left it after a short time. He never thought about a musical career until, one day, he was singing at his sewing … 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 …
Egon Ledeč
… concertmaster in 1926. He held this post until the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939. Ledeč was an active soloist and chamber music player in Terezín. He formed the first chamber … Czech … Philharmonic … Terezin … Theresienstadt … Chamber … Music … Egon Ledeč …
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 … This discovery sparked Schul's interest in Jewish musical themes, which he began to incorporate into his …
Yankele Hershkowitz (Herszkowicz)
… is known about Yankele Hershkowitz’s personal life, his musical contribution to the cultural life of the Lodz ghetto … from Vienna . Hershkowitz was one of the only street musicians that earned enough money to survive. The Lodz … 1944 and then transferred to a labor camp in Braunschweig , Germany where he was liberated in May of 1945. After the …
Elio Piattelli
… from the University of Rome in 1931, he pursued his innate musicality studying in Rome with Maestro Cesare Dobici … is not a translation but an original work of mine” (source: Germanic History [in Latin, Monumenta Germaniae Historica ]), written as a radio drama, recorded …