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Meir Shimon Geshuri
Meir Shimon Geshuri (née Bruckner; April 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli…
Nissan Blumenthal
Nissan Blumenthal was born in Berdichev, Ukraine, and at the age of 21 held his first…
Joseph Michael Gusikow
Musician. Born in Shklov, Belorussia to a family of 'Klezmerim.' Became famous in Europe…
Louis Lewandowski
Louis Lewandowski was born in Wreschen, Poland in 1821. At the age of thirteen, as a…
Az europai felvilagosodas hatasa a zsido liturgikus zenere [The influence of the European Enlightenment on Jewish liturgical music]
Jewish religious life and religious music experienced a revival in 19th-c. Europe, much…
Felix Mendelssohn- Gustav Mahler: Two Borderline Cases of German- Jewish Assimilation
Mendelssohn and Mahler represent the attempts of Jewish composers to assimilate into…
Jews in Music: from the Age of Enlightenment to the Mid-Twentieth Century
1st edition was published by Philosophical Library (NY) in 1959, under the title 'Jews…
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
In 1958, on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk…