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Joseph Roman Cycowski
… Cycowski was a singer of opera and popular music in Europe, and a cantor in the United States. Cycowski … born into a Hasidic family in Lodz, Cycowski's early musical training came as a choirboy (meshorer). He moved to Germany in 1921 to become an opera singer and joined the …
Jerome Kern
… nine children, of which only three survived. Kern began his musical career under the tutelage of his mother, who was a … Kern enrolled at the Normal College in New York to study music education. He also attended classes at the New York … 1903, Kern traveled to Europe to study music in Heidelberg, Germany, eventually settling in London, where he began …
Paul Ben-Haim
… had already developed a career as a conductor of operas in Germany in the early 1930s, which he was forced to forsake … The most prolific of the founding fathers of Israeli music (excluding, perhaps, Marc Lavry), he wrote over 250 … and vocal, chamber and symphonic works. His conservative German, post Mahler-Strauss style with early twentieth …
Salcia Weinberg
… with a Yiddish variety show through Bulgaria, Hungary and Germany, returning to the Yiddish theater and playing for a …
Herman Berlinski
… (chamber, organ and vocal works). The Herman Berlinsky music collection, which contains writings and compositions … can be found here via the Miliken Archive of Jewish Music. An additional biography can be found here , on the Information Bulletin of the Library of Congress. … German-American composer and organist … 0 … Herman Berlinski …
Shlomo Carlebach
… and performer. Shlomo Carlebach was born in Berlin, Germany. In 1939, he moved to the U.S. where he began his music career. Carlebach is considered by many to be the …
Avraham Daus
… Israeli composer. Born in Berlin. Worked in Germany as an opera conductor. Immigrated to Israel in 1936. … Tel Aviv in 1974. His style is influenced by 20th-century musical techniques, but also incorporates elements associated with Middle Eastern music. Daus's works include chamber, vocal and orchestral …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… throughout Eastern Europe. Because of the exceptional musical and emotional power of his singing, he attained a … 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 … the rare items is Hast's earliest collection of synagogue music from 1878 which he edited in collaboration with the … regarding Hast that appeared in the yahoo group jewishulmusic : Hast claims to have published the first volume of …
Theodore Holdheim
… Born in Berlin, Germany, and immigrated to Palestine in 1933, settling in Kibbutz Bet-Alfa. Studied music in Israel and in the U.S., and continued to study … Was very active as an educator in Israel in the fields of music and science. His compositional style was based on …