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Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa
… 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. … the camp every day. He also remembered that on Sundays some musicians played in the camp hospital. After only a few …
Viktor Ullmann
… many of his critiques of performances and individual musicians were preserved, shedding light on the culture and … New Music,” an informal group that he founded to support musicians interned in Terezín, and to give public … 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 the JMRC … website . She has also contributed biographies of Iraqi-Jewish musicians for this website. Warkov received a …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … as a scholar is still a major gap in the historiography of Jewish music. Born in Myslowitz, Upper Silesia, then part of … own period. At the same time, he complains that all these musicians of Jewish extraction are “adopted” by their …
Sigmund Schlesinger
… recognized the need of an appropriate musical setting for Jewish congregational services and composed complete musical … Jacob Schlesinger and Joseph Bloch: Civil War Composers and Musicians', in American Jewish Historical Quarterly , Vol. 53, No. 1 (September …
Albert Elias
… to play in private parties. Elias was the last living musicians to have played regularly with the Kuwaiti brothers … maqam Ajam , 1995. Haki Ovadiya and Elias . More sources: Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited by Esther Warkov. …
Shoshana Liessmann
… Studied Jewish Studies and Musicology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, graduated in Jewish Civilization at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. … of MA thesis: “Aspects of Jewish Musical Thought and Jewish Musicianship as a Reflection of Changes in the Cultural and …
Esther Sheinberg
… Musical Cultural Units, Musical Space as Cultural Unit, Jewish Immigrant Musicians 1910-1950, and the Ethics of Music Aesthetics. Her …
Yizhak Edel
… grandfather. In his grandfather’s house, Edel received a Jewish education, but he was also exposed to music while … He also became acquainted with the works of the Society for Jewish folk Music which were based mainly in St. Petersburg … in Tel Aviv, and offering courses through mail to young musicians in various Kibbutzim. Relying upon his wide …
Joseph Achron
… Krein, and Moses Michail Milner, he founded the Society for Jewish Folk Music . Achron's association with these musicians and composers inspired a change in his … of Russian and European Jewry. Joseph (Yussl) Achron, Jewish violinist and composer, was born May 1/13, 1886 in …