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Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents of Lithuanian Jewish descent…
Albert Elias
Elias was a virtuoso nay player, composer and instrument maker. In Baghdad Elias studied…
Bence Szabolcsi
Bence Szabolcsi was a Hungarian music historian. He was born in Budapest, the younger…
Shoshana Liessmann
Studied Jewish Studies and Musicology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-…
Naomi Cohn-Zentner
Naomi Cohn Zentner is an assistant professor in the Department of Music at Bar Ilan…
Yizhak Edel
Yitzhak Edel was born in Warsaw in 1896 to a Hassidic family. His grandfather, a…
Ya'akov Orland
Yaacob Orland was born in 1914 in Tetiev, Ukraine, to Eliezer and Batya Orland. In 1919…
Gil Aldema
Gil Aldema was born in the Borokhov neighborhood (today Giv'atayim), Israel. As a child…
Joseph Achron
Joseph Achron was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania. His musical genius…
Samuel Alman
Samuel Alman was born in Sobolevka, Podolia in 1877. He began his musical education…