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Velvel Pasternak
… , a pioneering publishing company specializing in Jewish sheet music. Mr. Pasternak was a true friend of the … Mr. Pasternak was born in 1933 in Toronto to Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Poland. He lived most of his life in New York City, where he dedicated his efforts to …
Alexander L. Ringer
… University (1983), and Heidelberg University - Academy for Jewish Studies (1983). Ringer also gave guest lectures at … the German Musicological Society, the World Congress on Jewish Music, the International Schoenberg Society, Society … In addition, Ringer wrote and researched extensively on the life and works of Arnold Schoenberg, Kurt Weill , Ludwig von …
Milan Slavicky
… the House of Artists (1990) and Gideon Klein: a Fragment of Life and Work (1995). He died in 2009 in Prague. Source: ' …
David Aaron de Sola
… He wrote several books and essays. D.A. de Sola had a lifelong passion for music. In 1857, he published The … in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. Biographies: see Jewish Encyclopedia website. 'David de Aaron de Sola' in … RICHARD D. “Haham Meldola and Hazan de Sola.” Transactions (Jewish Historical Society of England) 21 (1962): 1–38. De …
Avraham Soltes
… in 1938. At CCNY began the interest which encompasses his life: Judica; the struggle in Palestine to forge an Israel; … many cultural and educational activities that interpreted Jewish art, music, and literature. He was chairman of the National Jewish Music Council from 1963 to 1969 and a member of the …
Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa
… end of the war. Gradually the Nazis imposed a series of ‘Jewish laws’, restricting activities and employment of Jewish Greeks. In March 1943, transports began to Auschwitz. … At this point, the music stopped being part of Stroumsa’s life, for the first time since his early childhood. This was …
Viktor Ullmann
… Stuttgart. In 1933, Ullmann returned to Prague and his life as a freelance musician. In addition to teaching and to … became one of the leading figures in the camp’s musical life. He was active in Terezín during a time when musical … them to H.G. Adler after the war. Ullmann’s interest in Jewish themes peaked for the first time in Terezín, …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … as a scholar is still a major gap in the historiography of Jewish music. Born in Myslowitz, Upper Silesia, then part of … De-Lita in Yiddish). However, Geshuri’s life, as those of many young yeshiva students, took a turn …
David Nowakowsky
… such, David Nowakowsky was part of an influential circle of Jewish intellectuals including Saul Tchernikovsky, Chaim … Two volumes of Nowakowsky’s work were published in his lifetime under the title Shirei David ; one which included … Composer … Conductor … Odessa … Haskalah … Bialik … Music … Jewish … Liturgy … David Nowakowsky …
Kurt Weill
… several works for the concert hall and a number of works on Jewish themes. In 1946, four years before his death, he composed the Jewish prayer ' Kiddush ,' dedicated to his father. See Kurt … is a museum and information centre about the life and work of Kurt Weill. For Kurt Weil's list of …