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Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa
… a talented milliner. The oldest of four children, he showed musical talent at a young age. After completing secondary … 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. …
Ramon Tasat
… cantor of Shirat Hanefesh (Song of the Soul), an emerging Jewish congregation in southern Montgomery County, MD. He is … also the president of Shalshelet: The Foundation for New Jewish Liturgical Music. (The picture was taken from Tasat's website) P'tach …
Victor Tunkel
… In Memoriam The Jewish Music Music Research Centre bemoans the loss of Victor Tunkel, avid collector and scholar of Jewish music, who passed away on July 28, 2019, at the age …
Viktor Ullmann
… Ullmann family moved to Vienna, and Viktor began studying music theory with Dr. Josef Pohlaneur. In 1918, Viktor … piano (performed 1923), the Octet (1924), his incidental music for Klabund's Kreidekreis (1925), and the Symphonische … them to H.G. Adler after the war. Ullmann’s interest in Jewish themes peaked for the first time in Terezín, …
Chemjo Vinaver
… where he also conducted the Haniggun choir. The choir sang Jewish music, and he toured Europe and Palestine with them. From … The Seventh Day and for his published volume Anthology of Jewish Music . Sources: Encyclopedia Judaica , Con cise …
Esther R. Warkov
… Esther Warkov's seminal contributions to the study of Arab music and Arab-Jewish musicians in Iraq and Israel feature prominently on … website . She has also contributed biographies of Iraqi-Jewish musicians for this website. Warkov received a …
Daniel Meir Weil
… In the field of Jewish musicology, he earned a second PhD from the Hebrew … make accessible to a wider public the fruits of his archaeo-musical and halakhic research in that domain. See: " שיחזור …
Hirsch Weintraub
… son of cantor-composer Solomon Weintraub , and started his musical training at an early age singing as a chorister in … choir in Dubno, and also receiving formal studies of music and violin. Later he left to study harmony in Vienna … . (Written by Ofer Ronen) Sources: Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music (Macy Nulman). Binder, A. W. Preface. 'Schire …
Albert Weisser
… Albert Weisser was Born in New York City of Russian-Jewish parentage. He attended high school in Queens and sang … Upon graduating in 1948, he entered the master's program in musicology. Under the guidance of Curt Sachs , he wrote his thesis on 'The Jewish National Music in Russia', which was later published …
Efraim Yaakov
… and especially recruited people on the subject of the music of the Jews of southern Yemen ... '. Sources (in …