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István Anhalt
… Anhalt wrote orchestral, chamber, vocal, choral, and opera music. Some of his works were influenced by Jewish …
Chasidic in America
… and began performing at popular music venues or in the opera. This new career path often caused a rift with the … After his immigration to America he began to sing light opera while continuing to perform some cantorial tasks on …
Bessie Schonberg
… young the family moved often as MacGrew pursued a career as opera singer. In 1911 or 1912 however, apparently due to her …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… period were composed long afterwards by artists in exile, operating with fundamentally new conditions in terms of both … of the relationship between Jewishness and Russianness operated at the heart of the Society for Jewish Folk Music. …
Sol Zim
… Recordings feature Yiddish, Israeli, Chassidic, Broadway, Opera and Pop Music. Most of his recordings contain original …
La Gallarda matadora
… Marín, a renowned flamenco dancer, has, for example, cooperated with Mor Karbasi, an Israeli singer who specializes …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… born in Belz, Bessarabia, and sang on Italian and Russian opera stages. At the advice of the poet Haim Nahman Bialik, …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… at the Conservatory of Saint Petersburg [and later on an opera singer in that city]. He composed melodies for two … and it seems to me that he used to sing at the choir of the opera there. And in that city lived my sister [Olga] who … that city’s most prestigious Conservatory and member of the opera’s choir, Igly must have experienced in the Russian …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… attended. The family arrived in Israel in 1949 as part of Operation Magic Carpet. During her professional career, …
The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer
… Jews that started in 1979 became publicized in the wake of Operation Moses when a significant proportion of the Jewish … November 1984 and early January 1985. In the wake of this operation, the Israeli absorption authorities decided to … Ben-Dor (Israel), Dr. Olivier Tourny; and with the cooperation of various French and Israeli research institutes, …