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Avraham Soltes
… accomplishments 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 …
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 … and the friendly relations between us and the Rebbe’s songs, Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yehoshua Heschel (may God … with a vast array of popular and traditional Yiddish songs, as well as, later on, the new “rebirth” songs ( …
Kurt Weill
… 1946, four years before his death, he composed the Jewish prayer ' Kiddush ,' dedicated to his father. See Kurt Weil's … School of Music, University of Rochester. List of Hebrew songs he composed, in Zemereshet (זמרשת) and Bait Lazemer …
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… also supported himself by selling embroidered “taligas,” or prayer shawl pouches, and ornamented curtains for the ark in … children. In Tunisia he taught piyyutim and Jerusalemite songs to the locals. He also composed and exported to Jerusalem many songs about his yearning for Zion , which were …
Joseph Shlisky
… established Jewish families. He delighted audiences with songs that would remain at the core of his non-liturgical … Handel’s Sound an Alarm and a series of Yiddish or Hebrew songs. While these may have been folk songs, Shlisky was … like Hineni Heoni Mimaas (I Came Before or The Hazzan’s Prayer), Av Horahamim ( Father of Mercy), Mizmor L’Dovid …
Yosef Hadar
… the summer of 2006. Works: Most of the well known children songs of the sixties were recorded by Hadar with the help of … languages and has even entered the repertoire of liturgical prayer melodies. Many synagogues use the melody to sing the piyut, 'Lecha Dodi' during the 'Kabalat Shabbat' prayer on Friday night, and the tune is widely used at …
Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… direction of Dr. Michael Naida. His popular compositions, songs, film and video scores, signature tunes, and … a wealth of contemporary poetic meditations, music and prayers. The Jewish Book Club selected it as its Main … Miron arranged and recorded underground Jewish, protest songs from USSR entitled ' Silent No More, ' in …
Elio Piattelli
… above all to allow young cantors to learn those traditional songs and thus enhance the cultural, liturgical and musical … communities. He transliterated the Hebrew texts of the songs in Latin characters with a very simple method that … liturgical songs and contextualize them within the order of prayers for festivals and holidays according to the Roman …
Haim Effendi
… not become a full-time cantor who also happened to record songs in Ladino, as Isaac Algazi did. He moved into what … police officers found Haim Effendi covered with a talit (prayer shawl) and ready for the meal preceding the fast. … Haim Effendi did not know what to play; he opened the prayer book that he held in his hands and started to play …
Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Friedman
… worshippers were seeking more accessible, communal modes of prayer. Friedman’s early compositions were designed to be … of liturgical and religious Jewish themes, educational songs for children, community and identity-building songs for youth, and introspective songs meant for spiritual …