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Shlomo Ravitz
… continue studying music theory. After that, he returned to Russia and served as a cantor in the cities of Berdichev, …
Morris Rosenfeld
… Alter in 1862 in Stare Boksze, in Suwałki County, part of Russian Poland. Morris came from a family of fishermen. He …
Walter Salmen
… life and work of the last conductor, King Friedrich II of Prussia, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, run through his entire …
Albert Weisser
… Albert Weisser was Born in New York City of Russian-Jewish parentage. He attended high school in Queens … , he wrote his thesis on 'The Jewish National Music in Russia', which was later published as The Modern …
Mordechai Yardeni (Motl Sherman)
… in 1906 in the town of Slovechno (Volyn province of the Russian Empire, now Ukraine). His father, Chaim Sherman, was …
Joseph Yasser
… Society. His research deals with theories of tonality, Russian music, and Jewish music (Biblical instruments, …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… a relatively new Jewish settlement in Silesia] next to the Prussian border during [the Rebbe’s] journeys to the springs … volumes dedicated to the territories of “the large czarist Russia until 1914,” comprising the territories that became … Congress Poland, which had to be separated from the Russian volumes due to space considerations. The fifth and …
David Nowakowsky
… David Nowakowsky was born in Malin, Russia near Kiev. Nowakowsky left home at an early age and … continue to be used by many hazzanim and choirmasters. … Russian synagogue choirmaster, composer & teacher … Hazan, …
Abraham Goldfaden
… was in circulation for approximately six months before the Russian government banned its continued publication. … By 1880, his troupe was touring extensively throughout Russia, which increased his recognition as well as the … theater continued to grow in scope until 1883 when the Russian government banned performances in Yiddish. As a …
Joseph Achron
… famous works, A Hebrew Melody (1911). In 1913 he moved to Russia to take a position as the head of the violin and … tenure there was cut short by his draft into the Russian Army in 1916. In the years after World War I, Achron … a grant from the Leonid Nevzin Center for the Research of Russian and European Jewry. Joseph (Yussl) Achron, Jewish …