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Jakob Schönberg
… an important collection of Hebrew songs from the pre-state Jewish communities in the Land of Israel. For full biographies and … The Jakob Schönberg Collection , the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary (including biographical notes) …
Leib Glanz
… genres, including romantic music, Israeli folk songs, and Jewish liturgical music from communities throughout the Diaspora. While working at Ohev … in Tel Aviv. Glanz was also a serious composer of Jewish liturgical music, with a corpus of over 100 works as …
Abigail Wood
… 2002-6, and moved to take up the Joe Loss Lectureship in Jewish Music at SOAS, University of London in 2006. In 2013 … include contemporary klezmer and Yiddish song, music in Jewish-Christian relations and music in immigrant communities in contemporary Israel. … Researcher and …
Israel Lovy
… born in a town near Danzig in 1773. He received his formal Jewish education at a Yeshiva in Glogau, where his father … hazzan. From a young age, Lovy traveled as a hazzan serving communities in Moravia , Bohemia , Saxony , and Bavaria . In …
Pinhas Minkowski
… the young age of eighteen. He traveled extensively, serving communities in Kherson, Lemberg, and Odessa, finally … intellectual movement in Odessa. He lectured at the Jewish Conservatory and was the chairman of the Ha-Zamir … auspices he published several articles on the topics of Jewish music and hazzanut. The majority of Minkowski’s …
Nahum Nardi
… on tour in Europe. During that tour, while visiting the Jewish Community center in Berlin, Nardi met the Yemenite … Na'ama (1931-1989), and they began a joint concert tour of Jewish communities in Poland, Germany, Latvia, Belgium, Holland and …
Mordekhai Hershman
… in New York City at Tomashevsky’s Theatre appeared in The Jewish Daily News of February 20, 1920. The enthusiastic … by Tchaikovsky.” Echoes of his appearances dotted the Jewish press that did not spare any superlatives. On … only twice per month and he conducted services in many communities on the other Shabbatot. In concert he often sang …
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… and Sara. During the Balkan War (1912-1913), many young Jewish residents of Jerusalem fled the city or hid in order … on a cargo boat exporting oranges to Malta . The small Jewish community of Malta wasn’t able to utilize the … Mizrahi's piyyutim in many of the Sephardic and Mizrahi communities in Israel and around the world. … Composer & …
David Abikzer
… 'Cantor Abikzer Says Goodbye to the Temple of Cedarhurst.' Jewish Image . September 10, 2008. URL: … The Jewish Heritage Society of the Five Towns. Jewish …
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 … with Damari and Goland, achieving notable success in Jewish communities. In 1950, Wilensky began a program on Kol Israel …