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Frederick Piket
… Frederick Piket was born in Hungary, and received his formal musical education in Europe. He was a successful secular music composer and conductor for several decades before …
David Beyglman
… Ostrowiec (Kielce province of Poland). Beyglman began his musical education at a young age, studying several instruments, … early years of the war and of ghetto life, and new forms of musical and theatrical expression were adapted to the harsh …
Gideon Klein
… At the age of twelve, Klein moved to Prague to study music and liberal arts at the Jirasek Gymnasium. While in … Kurz. That same year, he began a double-degree program in musicology and philosophy at the Karl University. In the … Reich, Nazi officials closed all institutions of higher education in the occupied Czech territories. Klein’s …
Max Helfman
… 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 … the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He directed many choirs and educational institutes on both the east and west coasts, …
Mordekhai Zeira
… born in Kiev, Russia, in 1905. Although he was born to a musical family, his musical education consisted mostly of a handful of piano lessons, …
Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… by Ascap Today as, 'a major force in today's liturgical music.' Issachar Miron has made a name for himself … of a local department store, a rabbi, and a violinist by education, endured inhuman suffering in the winter of 1941 … established he was named the National Deputy Director of Music for Israel's Ministry of Education and Culture. He …
Avraham Slep
… It is not known where he was born or where he received his musical education. Slep began his career as a singing teacher at the … a professor of solfege at the Vilna Institute of Jewish Music, among whose teachers was Eliyahu Malkin, the teacher …
Richard Newman
… and received a master's degree from the Vienna Academy of Music. In 1937 he emigrated with his family to the United … Army and Fought in Europe. After the war, he directed the musical education program for the allied forces in the Austrian …
Moshe Nathanson
… Nathanson immigrated to Canada, where he studied Law and Music at McGill University. Mid-degree, Nathanson decided to transfer to the Institute of Musical Art in New York (now the Julliard School of Music). … in a special project sponsored by the Bureau of Jewish Education to teach 'Shirei Eretz Israel' (Israeli folk …
Jerome Kern
… nine children, of which only three survived. Kern began his musical career under the tutelage of his mother, who was a … Kern enrolled at the Normal College in New York to study music education. He also attended classes at the New York College …