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Reuben Rinder
… he moved to the United States and pursued his study of Jewish liturgical music. In 1910, Rinder held a cantorial … Reuben Rinder was influential in shaping 20th-century Jewish musical culture. Through insights from the Rinder papers and Rose Rinder’s oral history (UC Berkeley), this paper connects Rinder’s approach …
Zalmen Mlotek
… Yiddish folk and theater music and a leading figure in the Jewish theatre and concert worlds. As the Artistic Director … Jews who have had a profound impact on the American Jewish community. Zalmen Mlotek is the son of Joseph Mlotek … National Library of Israel website. Zalmen Mlotek's Oral History (video) on Yiddish Book Center website. Interview …
Mickey Katz
… an American musician and comedian who specialized in Jewish humor. Katz is most well known for his parodies, but … in the middle of the song. His songs often lampooned both Jewish and American culture. His songs have been compiled … 'Katz, Meyer Myron' in Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. More Bibliography: Katz, Mickey, Papa, …
Haim Effendi
… critical era of deep social and cultural transition in the history of the Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old traditional Ottoman Jewish community ruled by rabbinical authority was shattered … French), to liberal trends in Judaism (especially to Jewish nationalism or Zionism) and to subversive political …
Eliakum Zunser
… Vilna, and he was encouraged to study Hebrew literature and history. After his second marriage Zunser lived chiefly in … versions. Its theme was the joy of returning to plow the Jewish earth in the Holy Land. Zunser himself hoped to … online March, 1 2009. Nulman, Macy. Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music , New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1975. ' …
Pnina Salzman
… Academy of Music, The First Fifty Years: Studies in the History of Higher Music Education in Israel 1945–1995 …
Leon Schidlowsky
… works. They bear many textual references to the history of the Jewish people and to distinct Israeli experiences. … …
Moshe Rudinow
… songs into Hebrew and Yiddish, and performed the music of Jewish composers such as Engel , Saminsky , and Milner . Due … The repertoire of their shows included operatic arias and Jewish songs, mainly sung by Moshe. In 1925, the couple left …
Herman Svet
… at Kiev University, devoting himself primarily to the history of art. In 1920 he joined the Faculty of History and … Berlin, which in those years was a city of refuge for many Jewish intellectuals who were fleeing Soviet Russia. Svet … Hitler came to power (1933). His articles were published in Jewish newspapers and periodicals in Yiddish, Russian, …
Israel Adler
… Institut de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and musical studies. During his thirteen-year sojourn … on the diffusion of art music in certain Western European Jewish communities prior to the 19th century, published a … texts, Adler unraveled unknown sources about Western music history that were buried under the Hebrew alphabet. In this …