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Rahamim Amar
… Rahamim Amar was born in 1898 in the Jewish quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. His father’s … lived in the city for twenty generations. He started his music career as a trumpet player in the British Police Band, … and yet traditional Sephardic melos that also incorporated modern elements inspired by Oriental-tinged Israeli popular …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… 17, 1859. His father, Rabbi Eliyahu Navon, was one of the Jewish intellectuals and public figures in Adrianpole, a … of Adrianpole excelled especially in Hebrew poetry and in music, two fields in which Isaac Eliyahu Navon excelled as … combined contemporary themes and language idioms taken from modern Hebrew poetry. He also wrote religious poems which …
Joseph Papernikoff
… Thanks to his voice, a beautiful alto voice, and his musical hearing, he was accepted at the age of 8 to the … early 1920s he joined the Poalei Zion Left Party, which saw modern Yiddish literature as a central part of Jewish identity. Papernikoff was active in the cultural life …
Israel Adler
… the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études and at the Institut de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and musical studies. During his thirteen-year sojourn … revised previous paradigms in the study of music of early modern Jewish communities. In 1963, Adler returned to …
Abraham Baer
… . Baal Tfilla includes original compositions, as well as music borrowed from Salomon Sulzer , Louis Lewandowski … and Samuel Naumbourg , covering the liturgy of the entire Jewish calendar year. This major anthology by Baer, cantor … the life of Baer, see Hammarlund, Anders. A Prayer for Modernity: Politics and Culture in the World of Abraham Baer …
Abraham Eilam-Amzallag
… Aliyah. He studied at the Tel Aviv Teachers' College of Music and the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. He studied … Western compositional techniques. His works fuse Oriental Jewish melisma and modern techniques. In 1994 he participated in the …
Andre Hajdu
… 5 March 1932 to a characteristically assimilated Hungarian-Jewish family and having survived the Holocaust (a subject … after the war at the prestigious Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. There he studied under Endre Szervánszky … instrumental works in which he followed the romantic and modern European tradition of “pure” music. Examples of this …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… Latvia (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He continued … (which number over 1,000) laid the foundation for the modern study of Jewish musicology. My Life: A Sketch by A.Z. …
Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… The son of Ukranian-Jewish immigrants, Sholom Kalib was a mainstay of Jewish music in mid-twentieth century Chicago, serving as a … of comparative Ashkenazic chant to be attempted in modern scholarship, calling out to a new generation of …
Salomon Sulzer
… and imitated cantor of his time, appreciated beyond the Jewish community. As a composer and musician, Sulzer is considered by some as the father of modern cantorate. This is a result of his attempt to reform …