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Karel Reiner
… Czech territories issued a ban on public performances by Jewish musicians. From 1939 until 1943, Reiner worked for the Jewish Community office in Prague, organizing musical … company. Reiner was a leading figure in the musical life of Terezín. He was primarily involved in producing …
Hirsch Glik
… of the FPO were also heavily involved in the cultural life of the Vilna ghetto. Many partisan writers, such as … writing of this song; first, a battle between a group of Jewish partisans and SS officers in the forests near Vilna …
Shmerke Kaczerginski
… children'), and soon began organising Yung Vilne, a secular Jewish writing collective whose other members … imprisonment in the Vilna Ghetto, where he helped hide Jewish cultural works with Sutzkever as part of the Paper … in a plane crash at the age of 45. Renowned during his lifetime as a poet and writer, Kaczerginski dedicated much …
Yankele Hershkowitz (Herszkowicz)
… not much is known about Yankele Hershkowitz’s personal life, his musical contribution to the cultural life of the Lodz ghetto has been recounted by many … he became active in the cultural affairs of the city’s Jewish community. Hershkowitz was deeply saddened by the …
Neil Levin
… Neil W. Levin has devoted his professional and academic life to the scholarly study of the music of Jewish experience from historical, musicological, … lectured, written, and taught courses on a diverse array of Jewish and Judaically related musical subjects spanning a …
Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… an accomplished amateur pianist, died in the bloom of her life in 1927 at the age of thirty-six years old, when … 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 …
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 … sung to this day." In 1986, he received the ACUM Prize for Lifetime Achievement and was named an honorary citizen of …
Elio Piattelli
… from 1948 to 1984, Elio Piatelli enhanced the liturgical life of the synagogue (and beyond) with a choir that sang … 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 …
Nahum Heiman
… fans. The Israeli folk song (Zemer Ivri) is the soul of our life in this country. It is the mirror of time, spirit and history of our life as human beings and the life of the nation. Nahum … subscribed to the Academy of Cinema. There he worked in the Jewish Agency. After a few years, Heiman met with a Swiss …
Leonard Bernstein
… (three can be found below) about different aspects of his life. The aspects which connect him to Jewish music are his compositions on Jewish themes (the oratorio Kaddish , Jeremiah Symphony …