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Max Helfman
… educator. He had a long career arranging both secular and religious Jewish music and was considered to have a gift for writing music … seventeen years; his influence is most strongly felt on the religious music of Reform Judaism. He was also well known …
Uzi Hitman
… seminary with Cantor Moshe Koussevitzky and followed a religious lifestyle, whereas his mother was secular. … to Hitman, his father had a great influence on his musical path, and he used to play recordings of his father's … whenever he had visitors. In addition to the cantorial music played in his childhood home, Hitman’s parents …
Moshe Nathanson
… age 10, Nathanson attended a traditional heder (all-boys religious school) in the old city of Jerusalem. Moshe left … Nathanson immigrated to Canada, where he studied Law and Music at McGill University. Mid-degree, Nathanson decided to transfer to the Institute of Musical Art in New York (now the Julliard School of Music). …
Zalman Zylbercweig
… to Lodz with his family, where he enrolled in a modern religious Jewish school. Zylbercweig continued his secondary … articles, adaptations of novels, and reviews of books, music, and Yiddish theater. In 1922, Zylbercweig began to …
Haim Effendi
… In spite of his unparalleled fame as a singer and musician during his lifetime, very few details about the … 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 …
Abraham Ber Birnbaum
… to a Hassidic family in Pultusk, Poland. He was exposed to music as a young child while accompanying his father on … Rabbis of Kutsk and Ger, where Abraham would hear Hassidic music. Although he was considered an Illui in Talmud, … eventually allowed it on the condition that he keep up his religious studies. When the family moved to Lodz, Birnbaum …
Shlomo Carlebach
… Germany. In 1939, he moved to the U.S. where he began his music career. Carlebach is considered by many to be the foremost Jewish religious songwriter. He recorded over 25 albums, composed …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… throughout Eastern Europe. Because of the exceptional musical and emotional power of his singing, he attained a … importance of Cantor Salomon in the writings of cantors and musicologists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. … by instruments. He was, at the same time, a man of profound religious devotion and piety, and of a great knowledge of …
Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Friedman
… role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … career began in the 1960's, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer camps. … English translations and interpretations of liturgical and religious Jewish themes, educational songs for children, …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… of Adrianpole excelled especially in Hebrew poetry and in music, two fields in which Isaac Eliyahu Navon excelled as … 2. lyrical, secular poems (about love and nature) or with religious content (for example, dreams of redemption). His … resources. At the heart of his style are the patterns of religious piyyutim of the Jews of Turkey, created in the …