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Velvel Pasternak

… from Poland. He lived most of his life in New York City, where he dedicated his efforts to recording and transcribing …

… but retained its Zionist spirit, speaking Hebrew at home. There Rabbi Hirschenson became a congregational rabbi. After … York. She collaborated with her husband on two books, Is There an Answer? about Jewish faith after the Holocaust, …

Shlomo Ravitz

… At the age of 15, he went south to Kiev and Odessa, where he graduated with honors from a high school of music. … congregation. In 1932 he immigrated to Israel and settled there. Between the years 1934-1941 he served as the chief … under him. He founded and managed a singing seminar, where young men learned liturgical music and participated in …

Alexander L. Ringer

… After the war, Ringer emigrated to New York City in 1947. There he received a M.A. in Sociology and psychology in 1948 … before coming to the University of Illinois in 1958, where he attained full professor status in 1963. Beginning in … most notably the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he served as Fulbright Visiting Professor in 1962 to …

Samuel Rosenblatt

… 1930, Rosenblatt taught Jewish literature until 1947, and thereafter Oriental languages. His writings include: High …

Morris Rosenfeld

… fishermen. He was educated at Boksha, Suwalki, and Warsaw, where his family moved in 1876. He married Asna Beile and was … in London as a tailor, he emigrated to New York in 1886, where he would also work as a tailor. Notwithstanding his …

Ruth Rubin

… For full biography, click here . … Researcher, author and singer … Researcher … …

Walter Salmen

… University of Heidelberg, at the church music institute there, and after completing his doctorate in 1949 at the … at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, and was a lecturer there in 1961. In 1966 he accepted an appointment as director … Stammler guest professorship for Germanic philology there. After retiring in 1992, he moved to Kirchzarten near …

Joseph Singer

… , officiated as cantor in Beuthen, Nurnberg and Vienna (where he succeeded Salomon Sulzer ). He published numerous …

Milan Slavicky

… Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and HAMU in Prague, where his teachers were Karel Janeček and Karel Risinger. He … included his biography and a list of his compositions, see here. … Composer, musicologist, and pedagogue … Czech … …