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Karel Salmon
… He immigrated to Palestine in 1933, and was the first musical director of the Palestine Broadcasting Service … until 1962. Salmon also taught at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. His works include orchestral and chamber … style with near-Eastern, Mediterranean, and Jewish folklore. Salmon often used themes related to Judaism …
Robert Starer
… he taught at several academies. As a composer, Starer wrote music for ballet, opera, concerti, and in several other … styles and genres. His compositions include works with Jewish themes or Hebrew texts, such as: Kohelet , Sabbath … Encyclopaedia Judaica . … Composer … composer … Art … Music … Composers … Atonal … Ballet … Opera … Operas … …
Alexander Weprik
… include orchestral and choral works as well as chamber music, some which contain Jewish themes . Sources: Encyclopedia Judaica ; Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music ; Musica-Judaica . … Composer … composer … Art …
Shulamit Ran
… full biography via the University of Chicago Department of Music website, click here . Ran's personal website, … extensive biography can be found at the Milken Archive of Jewish Music. To access, click here . … Composer … Composers … …
Else Lasker-Schüler
… Else Lasker-Schüler was a German-Jewish poet and playwright famous for her bohemian lifestyle … my native well'), performed by Ofra Haza. In addition, musical works were composed according to Lasker-Schüler's … translated bu Yehuda Amichai. … German-Jewish poet and playwright … 0 … Poet … German Jews … Else …
Israel Najara
… using melodies of foreign songs that were common among the Jewish and non-Jewish public of his time. He is considered to be one of … Encyclopedia Judaica ; Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music ; Be'eri, Tova. Booklet of the concert- Rabbi Yisrael …
Herman Svet
… Yehudith Wahl, from Berlin. In 1917 he began writing about music for various Russian-language periodicals in Kiev and … Berlin, which in those years was a city of refuge for many Jewish intellectuals who were fleeing Soviet Russia. Svet … Hitler came to power (1933). His articles were published in Jewish newspapers and periodicals in Yiddish, Russian, …
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: …
Ray Musiker
… Ray is the fourth generation in a family of Klezmer musicians. As a child, Ray learned to play Klezmer dance music at Jewish weddings. His parents immigrants to America from … his parents, Ray inhererited a love of Eastern European Jewish music from Russia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and …
Joseph Papernikoff
… Thanks to his voice, a beautiful alto voice, and his musical hearing, he was accepted at the age of 8 to the … which saw modern Yiddish literature as a central part of Jewish identity. Papernikoff was active in the cultural life …