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Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… Asher Shimon Mizrahi was born in the old city of Jerusalem in 1890 to father Yitzhak Mizrahi, who was … few years of Asher’s life, his family moved outside the old city walls and built a new home across from the …
Dudu Barak
… radio. Through the choir, Barak got to know the poets Leah Goldberg, Miram Yalan Shtekelis, Anda Amir and Bilha Yafe who … idiomatic phrases when I wrote the songs. But when I saw a soldier in the street asking his friend, 'Ma Shlumcha?' (How … Could Barak have written the same song about a different city, Tel Aviv for example? He answers in an interview with …
Edward Stark
… boy, Edward sang in his father’s choir along with his three older brothers. In 1871, Edward and his family immigrated to … community concentrated in the 'East 50’s' of New York City , and Josef was hired to officiate at Congregation Adat …
Joseph Shlisky
… not far from the synagogue, in the heart of The Ward, the city’s bustling, growing Jewish district. As a soloist in … recitals and fundraisers for the war effort attended by the city’s Anglo-Saxon Protestant gentry as well as its … willing to directly assist hazzanim newly arrived from the Old World. At the height of his fame and powers as a cantor, …
Boris Thomashefsky
… to the United States in 1881, and settled in New York City. Shortly after arriving to New York, Thomashefsky … The troupe, with Thomashefsky’s help, produced Abraham Goldfadn’s play “The Witch” at Turn Hall on August 18, 1882. … America. He sponsored Ossip Dymov, Jacob Ben-Ami , Samuel Goldenberg, Michael Michaelesco, Aaron Lebedeff , and many …
Zikmund (Siegmund) Schul
… also developed a close friendship with Rabbi Lieben of the Old-New Synagogue in Prague . While in Prague , Schul …
Yosef Hadar
… Choir of Ramat-Gan. In the sixties he established the city's men's choir. In 1974, Hadar moved to Arad where he … teaching in several schools. In 1990, Hadar won the ACUM 'Golden Feather' award for Lifetime Achievment. In 1998, he …
Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… bloom of her life in 1927 at the age of thirty-six years old, when Issachar was 7 years old. His father, Shlomo Michrowski, an owner of a local … Seminary and at the Herzliah Teachers Institute in New York City. He is an ASCAP's Deems Taylor Award winner for …
Elio Piattelli
… sounds. Their style, their melodic 'flavor', in their simplicity and linearity (which facilitates and favors everyone’s … of the war] in memory of Stefano Taché [Gay], the two-year-old boy “killed by murderous hands motivated by anti-Semitic … didactic experiences with creativity as when on an old sheet of music he composed for voice alone without words …
Nahum Heiman
… into an angry look, I switched to English, and quickly told her about the ten thousand kilometers and the dreams I … of youth.' It was adopted as a memorial song for the dead soldiers of Israel. In 1984, Heiman produced the spectacle … videocassettes. Heiman has a unique love affair with the city of Jerusalem, to which he wrote a number of songs. The …