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Jacob Bachman
… between Joshua Abrass and Jacob Bachman, in which the Jewish community in Odessa was divided into two camps: the Pitsists …
Abraham Caceres (Casseres)
… (Casseres) was the leading musician in the Portuguese community of Amsterdam . Only a few of his compositions …
Jacob Blanes
… monograph, Musical Life and Traditions of the Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam in the XVIIIth Century . … Cantor …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… all of his career. He is most closely associated with the Jewish community of Dubno (today in western Ukraine), but although … assistant singers (m’shor’rim) to sing and lead services in Jewish communities throughout Eastern Europe. Because of the …
Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Friedman
… Deborah Lynn Friedman was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. Friedman’s compositional … religious Jewish themes, educational songs for children, community and identity-building songs for youth, and …
Israel Goldfarb
… in music, Israel went to study for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA). As a … to 1905, Goldfarb officiated as both rabbi and cantor in a community in Staten Island . In 1905, he was appointed … a prominent figure in the Society for the Advancement of Jewish Music, he put much effort in promoting the …
David Menahem
… ordained a rabbi. Since his ordination, he has served as a community rabbi. He plays the oud, the nay, as well as …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… 17, 1859. His father, Rabbi Eliyahu Navon, was one of the Jewish intellectuals and public figures in Adrianpole, a … urban centers of the Ottoman Empire in the 1860s: Haskalah (Jewish enlightenment) and Jewish nationalism. Educated Jews … Natan, a highly respected wealthy man (('גביר'in the Jewish community in Istanbul. While working with Bar-Natan, Navon …
Europa Rossi
… composer and musician Salamone Rossi , and the wife of the Jewish community leader David Ben Elisha. She had two sons, … and Angelo. She is considered to be the only professional Jewish female singer of her time, and the first to gain fame …
Obadiah the Proselyte
… settling in Egypt and becoming a member of the thriving Jewish community situated there, where he wrote his memoirs. … contain the earliest surviving manuscript source of Jewish music notation of synagogue chant. Sources: …