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Zalmen Mlotek
… Zalmen Mlotek is an American conductor, pianist, musical arranger, accompanist, composer, and the Artistic … Yiddish folk and theater music and a leading figure in the Jewish theatre and concert worlds. As the Artistic Director … Jews who have had a profound impact on the American Jewish community. Zalmen Mlotek is the son of Joseph Mlotek …
Harry Kandel
… and bandleader, one of the pioneers of modern klezmer music. He ran an orchestra which consisted of a variety of … in Swing'. Kandel studied at the Odessa Conservatory of Music and served in army band of the Russian czar, moving to … … 0 … American Klezmer Music … Poland … Clarinetist … Jewish music … Recording … Harry Kandel …
Joseph Moskowitz
… century. He was a descendant of a family of klezmer musicians and was among the most well-known American … his time. He had a wide repertoire which included not only Jewish music but also Romanian, classical, and ragtime music. Full …
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 … throughout Eastern Europe. Because of the exceptional musical and emotional power of his singing, he attained a … for further bibliography and transcriptions). A three-year research project on the life and music of Cantor Salomon is …
Jascha Nemtsov
… up in Saint Petersburg where he graduated from a special music school and was awarded a gold medal. He then continued … performed several concert programmes devoted to works by Jewish composers who were persecuted by the Nazis. He is … … Pianist & Musicologist … 0 … Pianist … Jewish music research … Musicologist … Jascha Nemtsov …
Ronit Seter
… Dr. Ronit Seter studies twentieth-century music and specializes in Israeli art music. She served on … Musical Quarterly, Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Jewish Women Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Judaica, Tempo, … American Musicological Society and Journal of Musicological Research . Her 2019 article, “Israeli Art Music,” was …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… 17, 1859. His father, Rabbi Eliyahu Navon, was one of the Jewish intellectuals and public figures in Adrianpole, a … of Adrianpole excelled especially in Hebrew poetry and in music, two fields in which Isaac Eliyahu Navon excelled as … Haskalah among the circles of local youth. The Hungarian researcher, Yosef Halevi, one of the pioneers in the …
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 …
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: Encyclopedia … Online. For a comprehensive and updated (2019) access to research and resources on Obadiah the Proselyte click here …
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 …