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Music, Muslims and Jews
With the rise of Islam and the expanding Arab conquests throughout the Middle East,…
Contrafactum
… the 18 th and 19 th centuries, the Hassidim considered it a sacred task to transform secular texts into religious ones. …
Jacob Ben-Ami
Jacob Ben-Ami was born in 1890 in Minsk, Belarus. His early education took place in a…
Bloch: Known and Unknown
Special Symposium Ernst Bloch: The Jew as European and American Composer On the…
Jews in Music: from the Age of Enlightenment to the Mid-Twentieth Century
… historical aspect. Extensive chapters are devoted both to sacred and secular music. Mendelssohn and Mahler, Bloch and …
Sigmund Feinman
Born near Kishinev, Feinman acted in Bessarabia and Romania, went to New York …
The Jewish Bloch
… of a Jewish Choral Style in Art Music Bloch’s seminal ‘Sacred Service’ (Avodat Hakodesh, 1933) antedated Heinrich Schalit’s ‘Sacred Service’ which inspired Paul Frankenburger a capella …
Dachau Song: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper
Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies…
Yetta Zwerling
Yetta Zwerling was a Yiddish actress in America during the 1930s and 1940s.
Born on…