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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 …
Joseph Papernikoff
… was born in the late 1990s (1897 or 1899) in the Russian city of Warsaw, Poland. He was the son of Malka nee … News ' (in Yiddish). He also published songs in ' The Golden Chain ' and was a member of the Yiddish Writers' …
Yehiel 'Adaki
… in Sana'a, and worked in the H erez region as a goldsmith. He also officiated as a rabbi without receiving payment. In 1906, when Yehiel was three years old, his family moved to Sana'a. His father worked as an … Ezrat A h im society. Later, he was invited by the Tel Aviv city council to organize a choir in the Kalischer School, …
Israel Adler
… Middle East . This newly created archive absorbed into its holdings extant recordings’ collections of distinguished … the public with a first hand panoramic view into the oldest recorded music of the synagogue. The oldest of these … Michael Collection of Jewish Music (formerly in New York City), he intensively sought the donation of A.Z. Idelsohn’s …
Boaz Tarsi
… San Diego Jewish Art Festival, Musicians Accord, New York City’s “The Kitchen,” “Musica Mundana”, the Adonai Foundation concert series in New York city, and the Beer Sheva Theater. His liturgical settings … Choir, Berlin SNEF Choir, and various London choirs. He holds a Doctorate degree from Cornell University. Dr. Tarsi …
Nissan Cohen-Melamed
… In 1956, Melamed went on an educational mission to Mexico City, where he directed the Hebrew Sephardic School, and … He came back to Israel in 1962, and continued his old job in Aliya Alef School. Between 1963 and 1966 Melamed …
Artur Holde
… Century . … Music critic, conductor and writer … Artur Holde …
Nikolai Kaufman
… are still unpublished. Kaufman was born in the northern city of Ruse (Rousse or Rustchuk) on the Danube, the site of … and singing psalms from holy books. He loved to sing old songs in Yiddish…but his children never learned them. … from the Iberian Peninsula. Sephardic Jews absorbed older local Byzantine Jewish populations and were joined by …