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Joseph Achron
… students was Isaac Dunaevskii, the future cutting-edge of Soviet entertainment music. During the two last years of …
Alexander A. Krein
… as Balmont, Bialik, Efros and others. In response to the Soviet ban on Jewish music, Krein returned to composing …
Mordekhai Zeira
… It was inspired by the workers' theater that evolved in the Soviet Union at the time of the communist revolution, in …
Hirsch Glik
… the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The song was based on a popular Soviet melody by composer Dimitri Pokrass. This song’s …
Shmerke Kaczerginski
… to the forest to fight with both the partisans and the Soviets. After the expulsion of the Nazis from Vilna by the Soviet Army, Kaczerginski returned home to recover the … museum in Europe; he quickly became disenchanted with the Soviets and communism and developed into an ardent Zionist. …
Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… Bikel / Miron Scholarship Fund ' for students from former Soviet Union, and from other countries. In 2000 ASCAP …
Pnina Salzman
… being the first Israeli pianist to perform publicly in the Soviet Union. Salzman also found fame in Israel as a …
Herman Svet
… of refuge for many Jewish intellectuals who were fleeing Soviet Russia. Svet lived in Berlin until Hitler came to … in Music (1960), J ews in Russian Musical Culture in the Soviet Period (1968), Jewish Theater in Soviet Russia (1968). Gershon Svet died on July 21, 1968, …
Shmuel Zanvel Pipe
… anecdotes about Napoleon and the Jews, Yiddish songs of Soviet Russia and sources of folk songs collected by Y. L. …
Jozef Koffler
… From 1928, worked in Lvov as a teacher, and under the Soviet occupation was promoted to management positions in … His style was influenced by the avant-garde, but under Soviet pressure, he turned to more mainstream composition. … Polish composer … Composer … Polish … Soviet … Holocaust … Jozef Koffler …