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Ghizela Suliteanu
… Romanian ethnomusicologist who collected a great deal of Ashkenazi and Sephardic folk and religious music in Romania. She researched in other fields of ethnomusicology … such as: folk music of Tatars and Turkish communities in Romania and the psychology of folk music. Sources: …
Leon Algazi
… Composer Leon Algazi was born in Iepuresti, Romania in 1890. He studied music in Vienna and Paris and …
David Zehavi
… grandparents on his father's side immigrated to Israel from Romania in 1877 as part of the first Aliyah. They came to … 1895, Avraham married Rachel, a 19-year-old immigrant from Romania, and worked in the silk factory owned by Baron …
Joseph Shlisky
… 16 or 17 years of age, Shlisky married Minnie Rinzler, a Romanian-born immigrant. Two daughters, Pearl and Helen, …
Sigmund Feinman
… Born near Kishinev, Feinman acted in Bessarabia and Romania, went to New York in 1886, and worked with Adler, … in London and on the Continent. He played Othello in Romania, 1909, and died while rehearsing in Lodz. …
Leon Blank
… in 1867. When Blank was just a boy, his family moved to Romania, where he began singing in a local Synagogue choir. …
Max Leibowitz
… Max Leibowitz was born in Iași, Romania and in September 1905 he emigrated to the United … American klezmer violinist and was a contemporary of other Romanian-born klezmer bandleaders and recording artists in …
Aaron Lebedeff
… villages and towns of Lithuania, Poland, Russia proper, and Romania. This fondness for Old World themes is immediately … Heym' (Far from home) (1926), 'Roumanische Karnatzlach' (Romanian sausage) (1927), and many more. Lebedeff continued …
Joseph Moskowitz
… Joseph Moskowitz born in Romania. He was an American cimbalom player, and a recording … repertoire which included not only Jewish music but also Romanian, classical, and ragtime music. Full biography in …
Alexander Uria Boscovich
… Alexander Uriyah Boskovich (Cluj, Hungary, now Romania, 1907 – Tel-Aviv, 1964, immigrated in 1938), a …