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Avner Bahat
Avner Bahat was born in 1932 in Tel Aviv. His mother, Malka (Bitterman), was born in…
Eliakum Zunser
Eastern European poet and singer. He is known for his songs that preached nationalism…
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… there AZ gave 30 years of his best life to his research. Konigsberg summer 1900 English version: Due to my … While in Memel (then Prussia), the idea came to me to go to Konigsberg, to Eduard Birnbaum. He accepted me and … with him, I listened to advice from friends and went to Konigsberg to the Chazzan Eduard Birnbaum and began to sing …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
Idelsohn was born in Filsberg, Latvia (former Kurland or Courland) and began his…
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
On March 15, 1899, the distinguished scholar, cantor, composer and avid manuscript…
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music (minhag…
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
The Yiddish language, which probably began to develop around the tenth century A.D. in…