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Zikmund (Siegmund) Schul
… synagogue. This discovery sparked Schul's interest in Jewish musical themes, which he began to incorporate into … entrusted to Schul by the authorities at the offices of the Jewish community in Prague . Schul was deported to Terezín … Schul’s Terezín corpus reflects his increasing interest in Jewish themes and Hebrew chant as a source for composition. …
Mordekhai Zeira
… and through his sister's playing. He was also exposed to Jewish melodies, while accompanying his father to the … In his songs, Zeira transmits a vast narrative of the [Jewish] people in Israel: Lemoladeti , Havo Lebanim , 'Al … would receive their inspiration from the springs of Jewish Music. He wanted them to use in their works musical …
Yosef Hadar
Yosef Hadar was born in Tel Aviv in 1926 to a musical family. His mother Yafa and his…
Pavel Haas
… and chamber music, and an opera. Haas' pieces influenced by Jewish music include Al S'fod (1942) composed to Hebrew words by David Shim'oni, and Fantasy on a Jewish Melody (1943). Lubomír Peduzzi mentions several … style: such as the music of Janacek, Moravian folksong, Jewish chant, Medieval Chorale, Western European …
Karel Reiner
… Czech territories issued a ban on public performances by Jewish musicians. From 1939 until 1943, Reiner worked for the Jewish Community office in Prague, organizing musical …
Marysia (Miriam) Eisenstadt
… Young singer who performed classical and Jewish music concerts in the Warsaw ghetto during World War …
Hirsch Glik
… writing of this song; first, a battle between a group of Jewish partisans and SS officers in the forests near Vilna …
Shmerke Kaczerginski
… children'), and soon began organising Yung Vilne, a secular Jewish writing collective whose other members … imprisonment in the Vilna Ghetto, where he helped hide Jewish cultural works with Sutzkever as part of the Paper … hidden cultural works and founded the first post-Holocaust Jewish museum in Europe; he quickly became disenchanted with …
Yankele Hershkowitz (Herszkowicz)
… he became active in the cultural affairs of the city’s Jewish community. Hershkowitz was deeply saddened by the …
Neil Levin
… and academic life to the scholarly study of the music of Jewish experience from historical, musicological, … lectured, written, and taught courses on a diverse array of Jewish and Judaically related musical subjects spanning a … creativity and life of American Jewry. As a professor of Jewish music on the faculty of the Jewish Theological …