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Avraham Soltes
… many cultural and educational activities that interpreted Jewish art, music, and literature. He was chairman of the … after week, he interwove the threads of Israeli history and culture with its musical heritage and that of Judaism at large. He had an …
Viktor Ullmann
… the fall of 1927, Ullmann took a short-term engagement as musical director in Usti nad Labem (now Aussig). After one … individual musicians were preserved, shedding light on the culture and participants of the musical life in Terezín. … them to H.G. Adler after the war. Ullmann’s interest in Jewish themes peaked for the first time in Terezín, …
Esther R. Warkov
… seminal contributions to the study of Arab music and Arab-Jewish musicians in Iraq and Israel feature prominently on … received a Fulbright for her MA research, Twentieth Century Musical Composition in Wales and its Relationship with … improvisation by these musicians as an indicator of culture change. Warkov’s research and musical analysis …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … Belarus, and his exposure to the Haskalah and modern German culture that spread to the new Jewish settlements of … childhood in the all-Christian Dańdówka in terms of extreme musical isolation and alienation. Hendel-Malka, Geshuri’s …
Abraham Goldfaden
… father took advantage of a new law mandating that Jewish students attending public school would be except from … Jewish and secular music. The initial performances of these musical theater pieces created movement to establish a … five years of his life involved in promoting the growing culture of Yiddish literature and theater. Click here to …
Bence Szabolcsi
… son of Miksa Szabolcsi (1856-1915), editor of the Hungarian Jewish weekly Egyenlőség . He studied musicology at Leipzig … Frigyesi, Judit. ' Jews and Hungarians in Modern Hungarian Musical Culture ' in Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume IX: …
Johanna L. Spector
… States. Spector collected many recordings of different Jewish musical cultures, including music from Iraqi, Persian, Yemenite, and …
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… community took notice of Asher Mizrahi’s pleasant voice and musical talents, and he began to earn money working as a … and Sara. During the Balkan War (1912-1913), many young Jewish residents of Jerusalem fled the city or hid in order … Asher Mizrahi assimilated very quickly to Tunisian life and culture, and within a year was able to bring his wife and …
David Beyglman
… Ostrowiec (Kielce province of Poland). Beyglman began his musical education at a young age, studying several … 1940, Begylman along with approximately 230,000 other Jewish residents were deported to the Lodz ghetto in the … concerts and theater shows staged in the House of Culture and in the sports hall of the ghetto’s gymnasium. In …
Yosef Hadar
… Yosef Hadar was born in Tel Aviv in 1926 to a musical family. His mother Yafa and his father Yehiel were … of Latrun and in Operation Hiram, as well as serving as a culture officer and as a singing instructor. His … contribution to Israeli folk song as a composer and as a musical educator. The award was granted to him by the Center …