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Joseph Singer
… on Jewish music and was among the first to investigate prayer chants scientifically, in an attempt to systemize the traditional prayer modes. Sources: Nulman, Macy. 'Singer, Joseph.' … Musicologists … Musicology … Synagogue … Music … Research … Prayer … Chants … Hazzanut … Chazzanut … Hazzanim … …
Avraham Soltes
… as a guitar-playing singer of Italian love- songs, Ladino prayer- songs, American folksongs, Yiddish lullabies, and … be so honored by Philathea. His book Tefilah: A Sheaf of Prayers , offered an eloquent response to a spectrum of …
Moshe Taube
… unique style as a cantor and composed original melodies for prayers. Sources: Encyclopedia Judaica , FAU Libraries …
Akiva Zimmermann
… world of hazzanut presented in his research and essays are prayer melodies and piyyutim , cantors, history of hazzanut …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… in music and “ ba’al tefillah muvhaq ” i.e. a consummate prayer leader). He was a descendant of a family of cantors …
Sigmund Schlesinger
… composed complete musical services according to the Union prayer book. These services were adopted by some of the …
Kurt Weill
… 1946, four years before his death, he composed the Jewish prayer ' Kiddush ,' dedicated to his father. See Kurt Weil's …
Gershon Sirota
… to lead services at the local Bet Hamedrash (small house of prayer), where his grandfather was a member. The board of …
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… also supported himself by selling embroidered “taligas,” or prayer shawl pouches, and ornamented curtains for the ark in …
Isaac Offenbach
… and traditional melodies (1838), and a Hebrew-German youth prayer book (1839). … Cantor & composer … Isaac Offenbach …