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Naomi Cohn-Zentner
… Cohn Zentner is an assistant professor in the Department of Music at Bar Ilan University. She was formerly the head of the M.A. program in Jewish music at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies. … Hamakom Center for the Study of Cultures of Place in the Modern Jewish World and a visiting fellow at the Oxford …
Michael Lukin
… The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore , Musica Judaica , Yuval , Musik Traditionen , Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore , and Shofar , explore Yiddish folk songs … and folklore, Hasidic musical thought, and Yiddish modern poetry at the Hebrew University and Bar-Ilan …
Joseph Achron
… was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania . His musical genius became evident early on and at the age of … and Moses Michail Milner , he founded the Society for Jewish Folk Music . Achron's association with these … him in his obituary as: “one of the most under-estimated modern composers; the originality and profound elaboration …
Samuel Alman
… Alman was born in Sobolevka, Podolia in 1877. He began his musical education at the conservatory in Odessa and was a … quickly, and he was hired to lead several other local Jewish choirs in London . Alman was deeply influenced by the … Nisson Spivak and Solomon Sulzer. He made use of elaborate modern harmony in his arrangements, evoking the …
Alexander A. Krein
… Moscow in 1883. He and his five other siblings were taught Jewish folk and instrumental music by his father who was a well known Klezmer musician … there, and he became a prominent figure in the school of modern Russian composition. Krein’s early work was deeply …
Gustav Mahler
… Czech Republic) surrounded by a flourishing German-speaking Jewish community. Mahler's formal musical education began in 1875 at the Conservatory of Music … to emulate that style in his own writing while using a modernist approach. Though Mahler made several attempts at …
Yehuda Sharett (Shertok)
… (for which he won the Engel prize ) , a piece combining Jewish tradition with modern musical elements. Also known for composing poems of various …
Mordekhai Hershman
… in New York City at Tomashevsky’s Theatre appeared in The Jewish Daily News of February 20, 1920. The enthusiastic … El Temple, he continued to appear in concerts of classical music, record commercial records and tour throughout … have become classics and are frequently performed by modern Chazanim. Eilu Devarim , Shma Koleinu and Aneinu are …
Max Helfman
… Max Helfman was a Polish-born American Jewish composer, choral conductor, pianist, singer, and … a long career arranging both secular and religious Jewish music and was considered to have a gift for writing music … that was both singable and emotionally complex, which was modern and original and yet rooted in traditional folk and …
Neil Levin
… and academic life to the scholarly study of the music of Jewish experience from historical, musicological, … cantorial art, Yiddish and Hebrew folksong, the music of modern Israel, and music of American Jewish experience. He …