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Gershon Ephros

… Cantorial Anthology , a five-volume collection of synagogue compositions for cantor and choir, for the entire …

Alberto Hemsi

… and later in Milan. Worked as musical director in various synagogues in Egypt (1927-1957) and in France (from 1958). …

Aron Friedmann

… in Berlin and in 1882 was appointed chief hazzan of the Old Synagogue of the Berlin community, a post he held until …

… Academy. Idelsohn served as a cantor at the Adat Jeshurun Synagogue in Leipzig, and in Regensburg and Johannesburg, … Zalman Schochet, though very old, or Orkin of the Zamet Synagogue. Little did I realize that Rabinovitz will later … also present, engaged me in the choir of the Charlottenburg Synagogue, of which he was the leader. My first …

Eric Karsenti

… musical traditions of the Algerian Jews; Written sources of synagogue music from nineteenth-century Italy. … Researcher …

Sholom Kalib

… Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. He worked as cantor and conductor of Synagogue choirs. As a composer, he wrote music for Sabbath …

Leo Levi

… interests. His plan to devote a dissertation to the Italian synagogue song was frustrated by the rise of Fascism and … contacted almost fifty informants, professional hazzanim (synagogue cantors) and other culture-bearers. In over eighty …

Salomon Sulzer

… and was later appointed cantor at the Seitenstettengasse Synagogue in Vienna, where he stayed for fifty-five years. … modern cantorate. This is a result of his attempt to reform synagogue music by purifying existing melodies, and … seen in his Schir Zion , was widely adopted by the modern synagogues of the mid-nineteenth century. He published a …

Francesco Spagnolo

… with the Honor's Thesis Jews, Memory and the Present. Synagogue Song in the Works of E. Bloch, D. Milhaud and A. …

Louis Lewandowski

… arrangements that he decided to refocus his efforts in synagogue composition. In 1844 Lewandowski was hired by the Old Synagogue in Berlin to found and lead their choir. He worked as the choirmaster at the Old Synagogue for twenty-four years, conducting Salomon …