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Nurit Hirsh
Hundreds of Nurit Hirsh's songs are inalienable assets of the Hebrew Folk Song ('Zemer…
Martin (Rosebery d'Arguto) Rosenberg
… he was brutally tortured. He later formed a chorus of 25 Jewish prisoners that carried out their activities in secret … political prisoners. In 1942, when he discovered that the Jewish prisoners were to be sent to Auschwitz, he wrote the … gas chambers in 1943. This song was passed down by a non-Jewish prisoner at Sachsenhausen, Alexander Kulisiewicz, who …
Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… the first Nazi death camp of the “final solution of the Jewish question.” Their holy remains were buried in the … most horrible crime of crimes. After his discharge from the Jewish Brigade of the British Army, where Issachar Miron … States, he has served as Chairman of Music Faculty of the Jewish Teachers Seminary and at the Herzliah Teachers …
Avraham Slep
… Slep began his career as a singing teacher at the Vilna Jewish School. There he conducted a choir that brought him … became a professor of solfege at the Vilna Institute of Jewish Music, among whose teachers was Eliyahu Malkin, the … Slep also took part in the publication of collections of Jewish songs. So, he edited two collections of songs by …
Moshe Wilensky
… returned to Warsaw. In his youth, Wilensky attended the Jewish " Eskela " Gymnasium, which offered Hebrew … stage. He also composed music for films produced by the Jewish National Fund ('Hakeren Hakayemet') and for "Yomani … States with Damari and Goland, achieving notable success in Jewish communities. In 1950, Wilensky began a program on Kol …
Richard Newman
… In the 1950s and 1960s he conducted the choirs of the Jewish Centers in Hillcrest, Long Island, various synagogues … the music program of the Greater New York Council for Jewish Education. He is the author of numerous articles and books on Jewish music and Jewish musical education, like the book: …
Leon Lishner
… Leon Lishner was a Jewish American operatic bass-baritone. He was particularly …
Elio Piattelli
… from the oral traditions of the various rites of the Roman Jewish community as well as original compositions for … of the oral traditions of cantors from the various Italian Jewish rites and traditions. Piattelli transcribed not only … cultural, liturgical and musical heritage of the Italian Jewish communities. He transliterated the Hebrew texts of …
Henech Kon
… was an important member of the thriving inter-war Polish-Jewish cultural scene. He wrote popular songs, and … participated in a wide variety of cultural activities for Jewish and non-Jewish Poles. Full biographies: Neil W. Levin, ' Henoch Kon' …
Nahum Heiman
… subscribed to the Academy of Cinema. There he worked in the Jewish Agency. After a few years, Heiman met with a Swiss …