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Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… the first Nazi death camp of the “final solution of the Jewish question.” Their holy remains were buried in the … Director of Music for Israel's Ministry of Education and Culture. He served as the National Officer-in-Chief of Art … Opera with Tsipora Miron, piano, and was released by the Musical Heritage Society Inc. under the direction of Dr. …
Moshe Wilensky
… returned to Warsaw. In his youth, Wilensky attended the Jewish " Eskela " Gymnasium, which offered Hebrew instruction alongside general studies. Wilensky's musical talent emerged at four when he began playing the … the land… His early songs and hymns are embedded in Hebrew culture and are sung to this day." In 1986, he received the …
Moshe Nathanson
… Nathanson decided to transfer to the Institute of Musical Art in New York (now the Julliard School of Music). … of Nathanson’s most important contributions to the field of Jewish music is his compilation of liturgical melodies, … Jerusalem,” a weekly WMCA radio program to promote Hebrew culture and song. The first broadcast was released a month …
Reuben Rinder
… he moved to the United States and pursued his study of Jewish liturgical music. In 1910, Rinder held a cantorial … Rinder was influential in shaping 20th-century Jewish musical culture. Through insights from the Rinder papers and Rose …
Emanuel Amiran (Pougatchov)
… in the Hebrew language, the Bible and the fundamentals of Jewish culture. In Russia, Amiran began his music studies with Joel … In 1948, Amiran was appointed officer and instructor of musical activities in the IDF and was co-founder of the IDF …
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 … became an acclaimed exponent of Jewish Eastern European culture and tradition. Christians as well as Jews responded …
Betty Olivero
… of the most prestigious Emet Prize for Art, Science and Culture (2015), an Israeli prize awarded annually for … contemporary compositional form, yet is inspired by ancient Jewish and other early musical traditions. Folk material appears in rich, nuanced …
Ronit Seter
… the Grove Music Online (12 entries), she has published in Musical Quarterly, Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Jewish Women Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Judaica, Tempo, … received grants from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, Dan David Scholarship, National Endowment for the …
Ezra Aharon ("Azuri")
… listeners among Mizrahi communities (nearing 50% of the Jewish population), many leading composers listened to and … Warkov. Aharon and wife, Shulamit Aharon, discuss the musical styles that inform these compositions. (Hebrew, … in Iraq and Israel: Instrumental Improvisation and Culture Change Ph.D. dissertation by Esther Warkov. …
Herman Svet
… Berlin, which in those years was a city of refuge for many Jewish intellectuals who were fleeing Soviet Russia. Svet … including Russian Jews in Music (1960), J ews in Russian Musical Culture in the Soviet Period (1968), Jewish Theater in …