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David Aaron de Sola
… and Ashkenazi synagogues in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. Biographies: see Jewish Encyclopedia website. …
Avraham Soltes
… perhaps, his twenty-year-long chaplaincy at West Point. There at the U.S. Military Academy, for a period longer than …
Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa
… Musicale. Upon finishing that program, he moved to Paris, where he continued his studies in engineering and music. He … the women’s orchestra in Birkenau. She survived her time there but died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen just weeks before … the youngest sister, was assigned to work at ‘Canada’, where the clothes of the gassed victims were sorted. Thanks …
Moshe Taube
… Poland. After the holocaust, he immigrated to Palestine, where he worked as a cantor in Tel- Aviv. He immigrated to …
Victor Tunkel
… to his childhood as a choirboy at the Hendon Synagogue, where the great Cantor David Koussevitsky officiated. Mr. … eventually deposited at Leo Baeck College in London, where it is to be catalogued and made available to interested …
Viktor Ullmann
… in securing a post during his first year of residence there. During the years 1929-1931, Ullmann worked at the … Freizeitgestaltung enabled him to focus his energies elsewhere. In addition to his formal duties, Ullmann organized a …
Samuel Vigoda
… as cantor in Budapest, and in 1933 immigrated to the US, where he continued in cantorial offices in New York (taking …
Chemjo Vinaver
… commenced his studies in Warsaw and continued in Berlin, where he also conducted the Haniggun choir. The choir sang … left Germany in 1933 and in 1938 immigrated to the US where he established and conducted the Vinaver Choir. In 1967 …
Esther R. Warkov
… widely. Her publications and work on these subjects appear here . After studying ethnomusicology at the University of … in over 200 media reports. For a profile of Warkov see here . For Warkov's publications see here . … American Ethnomusicologist, Educator and Social …
Hirsch Weintraub
… and violin. Later he left to study harmony in Vienna (where he was influenced greatly by Salomon Sulzer's style) … as a cantor and composer, and published his main work there: 'Schire Bet Adonai.' For an additional biography, click here . (Written by Ofer Ronen) Sources: Concise …