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Kol Zimra: the Sound of Song
… of Jews in Calcutta,” in which he described in detail the life and institutions of Jewish settlers from the closing … publication is a book of pizmoneem – hymns and songs of a religious nature – he edited and translated into English, …
Music in the Social and Religious Life of Antiquity
… … Social functions … Musical traditions … Near East … Religious life … Alfred Sendrey … Music in the Social and Religious Life of Antiquity …
Song of the Sephardi
… the manner in which Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) is used for religious purposes, such as in the Sabbath and Passover … of the traditional Ladino folk songs that have been the lifeblood and musical soul of the Sephardi. The film was …
Avraham Soltes
… in 1938. At CCNY began the interest which encompasses his life: Judica; the struggle in Palestine to forge an Israel; … Academy, for a period longer than that spent by any religious leader in such service, his presence was also an …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… a significant activist in the Hapoel Hamizrachi movement, a religious socialist party within the Zionist movement. A … De-Lita in Yiddish). However, Geshuri’s life, as those of many young yeshiva students, took a turn … the liberal “Haaretz” and “Hatzofe,” the daily newspaper of religious Zionist movement in British Palestine. Overall, …
Nahum Nardi
… Nahum Nardi was born Nahum Narodietzky in 1901 to a religious-Zionist family in Kiev, Ukraine. He was named … 1949 the U.S. television network NBC aired a show about the life and work of Nardi. During the same year, Nardi composed … and Albert Einstein. During the last years of his life, Nardi disappeared from the public eye, and lived in …
Mordekhai Hershman
… sold, showing the porous line separating secular from the religious musical practices led by great cantors of the time … following video clip includes many visuals of Hershman’s life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF_qcsZXuZQ Online … Vilna was one of the most flourishing centers of Jewish life, at this time, this post Rishon at the main Synagogue …
Morton Shanok
… School and the College of Jewish Music in New York for his life-long contribution to the cantorial profession. His … Cantor at Temple B’nai Abraham in Beverly and then became Religious Cultural Co-Ordinator at the Jewish Rehabilitation …
Uzi Hitman
… they moved to Ramat Gan, where he lived for the rest of his life. His parents were survivors of the Bergen Belzen … seminary with Cantor Moshe Koussevitzky and followed a religious lifestyle, whereas his mother was secular. According to …
Haim Effendi
… his unparalleled fame as a singer and musician during his lifetime, very few details about the life of Haim Effendi … educated in one of the most important centers of Sephardi religious music, Edirne, where a local Jewish choir called … Arabic; and modern Hebrew, along with his command of the religious Hebrew repertoire. In spite of the meager …