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Hirsch Glik
Hirsch Glik was born in 1920 to a working class family in Vilna. Glik began writing…
Mordekhai Zeira
Life
Mordekhai Zeira was born in Kiev, Russia, in 1905. Although he was born to a…
Joseph Achron
Joseph Achron was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania. His musical genius…
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The Modern Renaissance of Jewish Music: Events and Figures, Eastern Europe and America
Includes biographies, and complete list of publications of the Society for Jewish folk…
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Alexander Krein's Kaddish, op.23,manuscript by the Soviet Jewish coposer, lost since the Nazi era.
Aleksander Krejn (1883-1951), a founder of the Jewish national school in Russia, wrote “…
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David Finko: Russkij kompozitor v Amerike. [David Finko: A Russian composer in America.]
Finko (b.1936) emigrated to the U.S. in 1979, after having grown up in Leningrad and…
The Music of the Mountain Jews
A study of the liturgical and folk music of one of the most remote Jewish communities,…
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The composer was courageous, but not as much as in myth.
In summer 1948, Sostakovic composed the song cycle (From Jewish folk poetry), his first…
The Music of the Mountain Jews
A study of the liturgical and folk music of one of the most remote Jewish communities,…