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Rahamim Amar
… His mother's family, who named Parnas, was deported from Spain, and was the 20th generation in Jerusalem. He … of the British Mandate in Israel. After his release from the army, he began to specialize in other musical … has a unique compositional style. His style was composed from Spanish-Turkish and Arabic music. However, despite the …
Marcus Hast
… items is Hast's earliest collection of synagogue music from 1878 which he edited in collaboration with the Polish … (the very first of all, [David Aharon] De Sola, was from Bevis Marks, the Spanish & Portuguese Jews, in 1857). … the 1890s and 1900s, there was in fact a very early volume from 1873 [1878, see above], which is much rarer. This would, …
Naftali Herstik
… his family to Israel at the age of three. He is descended from a long line of cantors and Rabbis, and was recognized as a cantorial prodigy from his early childhood, singing as a teen in concerts with …
Eli Jaffe
… Born in Jerusalem and graduated from The Hebrew University and the Rubin Academy of Music. …
Tzipora Jochsberger
… to the US in 1952, and received a PhD in Jewish Music from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1972. Published …
Leon Kornitzer
… Leon Kornitzer, in: Lexicon of persecuted musicians from the Nazi era , Claudia Maurer Zenck, Peter Petersen … Hamburg, 2009). An interesting report by Kornitzer from 1937 describes the collection of Jewish liturgical music …
Salah El Kuweiti
… immigrated to Israel in 1951. After their emigration from Iraq, their names were intentionally forgotten, and … Sources: Dudu Tassa tells the story of the al-Kuwaitis ' From Israel, a Jewish Singer with Arab Roots Revives the …
Yinam Leef
… A selection from his biography on the Jerusalem Academy of Music and … Yinam Leef (Born in Jerusalem in 1953) is one of the most prominent and active composers in Israel today. He grew up in … Yale at Norfolk and Tanglewood. Leef's catalogue ranges from small, intimate solo pieces to massive orchestral …
Nehama Lifshitz
… 'the Jews of silence,' which were not allowed to immigrate from the U.S.S.R. to Israel in the sixties and seventies. … …
Jascha Nemtsov
… in 1963 and grew up in Saint Petersburg where he graduated from a special music school and was awarded a gold medal. He … repertoire is wide and varied: Besides of the Classic and Romantic repertoire, he is especially dedicated to the music … National Library of Israel website. Jewish Dance No. 1 from the album On Wings of Jewish Songs /Artist: Jascha …