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Josef Bonime
… family as a young boy. Bonime studied composition at The City College of New York and piano performance at Julliard. … Columbia School of the Air,' and composed music for the 'Old Time Radio Series' aired by NBC Blue Radio. Bonime …
Moshe Nathanson
… a traditional heder (all-boys religious school) in the old city of Jerusalem. Moshe left the heder to attend Bet …
Harry Von Tilzer
… Woodward. Von Tilzer decided to relocate to New York City to pursue a career as a songwriter. His productivity … the Brooklyn Bridge. The two collaborated on a song, 'My Old New Hampshire Home,' which they sold to a local printer named William C. Dunn, who managed …
Jerome Kern
… Jerome Kern was born on January 27, 1885 in New York City to parents Fanny and Henry Kern. Jerome was the oldest of nine children, of which only three survived. Kern … Kern contributed to the show, 'They Didn't Believe Me,' sold nearly two million copies. From 1915 to 1919, Kern and …
Bertha Kalish
… the starring role in Gimpel’s production of Abraham Goldfadn 's play Shulamit. Kalish also toured with Goldfadn’s company in Budapest and Bucharest, where she enjoyed great popularity. Kalish immigrated to New York City in 1896, where she became a mainstay of the Yiddish …
Haim Effendi
… today Turkey) in 1853. He spent most of his life in his city of birth although he toured extensively. From 1925 to … in the history of the Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old traditional Ottoman Jewish community ruled by rabbinical … that he respects the King, but he cannot come. The envoys told the King what happened, and the King ordered to send …
Eliakum Zunser
… and vicious harassment by the Russians, he wandered from city to city and at one time was imprisoned. After his release from … ' ('The Little Postal Bell') and ' Der Sandek ' ('The Man Holding a Child at Circumcision,' 1872), and in his only …
Joseph Michael Gusikow
… performing in front of notable figures such as King Leopold of Belgium. Guzikow was highly praised by musicians such …
Yinam Leef
… grew up in a cultural melting pot, where East meets West, old and new coexist. He studied piano and violin and his … mixture of Jewish prayers, the chant of the Moazzin and the Old City's church bells. His first published composition, …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… Jewish intellectuals and public figures in Adrianpole, a city which had, from the seventeenth century until WWI, one … and resources within the community. The Navon family household in Istanbul gradually became a point of pilgrimage for … of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, which was held in the Navon household. The connection between Navon and Ben-Yehuda increased …