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Morris Rosenfeld
… 1862 in Stare Boksze, in Suwałki County, part of Russian Poland. Morris came from a family of fishermen. He was … his family moved in 1876. He married Asna Beile and was the father of two daughters, Freidel and Reisel and a son, … to English and were published in 1898 in the book ' Songs from the Ghetto '. The first edition sold out, and the …
Jakob Schönberg
… Composer and music theorist active in Germany, England and New York. Author of Shire Erets Yisrael (1935), an important collection of Hebrew songs from the pre-state Jewish communities in the Land of …
Avraham Soltes
… to parents who recently arrived from Eastern Europe. His father, Mordechai Soltes had earned a Ph.D. in education, from … accomplishments as a guitar-playing singer of Italian love- songs, Ladino prayer- songs, American folksongs, Yiddish … groups of Christian ministers and professors to the Holy Land, for several summers. This action was recognized by …
Mordechai Yardeni (Motl Sherman)
… Mordechai Yardeni was Born as Motl Sherman in 1906 in the town of Slovechno (Volyn province of the Russian Empire, … as an 'Israeli' singer, with a repertoire of 'Israelian' songs and Jewish liturgy. From 1940 he began to accept … also performed in several European countries: Belgium, England, France, and Poland. Yardeni was a member of the …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music traditions. He was also a public … Silesia, then part of the German Empire (now Mysłowice, Poland), Geshuri (a name derived from the Hebrew for “bridge,” … and the friendly relations between us and the Rebbe’s songs, Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yehoshua Heschel (may God …
Ya'akov Orland
… Yaacob Orland was born in 1914 in Tetiev, Ukraine, to Eliezer and … age five, he survived a pogrom in his hometown that claimed the lives of eight family members, after which his family … ("Tree in the Wind"), a work of reflective and allegorical songs inspired by his youth and homeland, dedicated to a …
Nahum Nardi
… He was named after his uncle Dudu 'Noyhem,' who was the court rabbi of the community. He began his piano studies … classical repertoire with folk music, such as Russian folksongs, Hassidic music and Hebrew songs. In addition to … they began a joint concert tour of Jewish communities in Poland, Germany, Latvia, Belgium, Holland and France. In …
Mattityahu Shelem
… Born in Zamoscz, Poland. Immigrated to Palestine in 1922, settled in Kibbutz … Ramat-Yohanan. Shelem worked as a shepherd, and his early songs include shepherd songs and songs for kibbutz … His most renowned work is Havaʼat haʻomer , composed for the Omer festival of Ramat Yohanan. This work and Yehuda …
Mordekhai Hershman
… was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov) in the Chernigov Governorate of the Russian Empire, today … coming of the “well-known cantor Mordecai Hershman to the Land of Israel.” The size of the title equals the one … not only recordings of cantorial music but also folk songs in Yiddish. As the following announcement ( Der Moment …
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… Asher Shimon Mizrahi was born in the old city of Jerusalem in 1890 to father Yitzhak Mizrahi, … children. In Tunisia he taught piyyutim and Jerusalemite songs to the locals. He also composed and exported to … audience, expressed Asher Mizrahi’s longing for his homeland. Hemdi Abasi also recounts that Asher Mizrahi’s voice …