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Jakob Schönberg
… Composer and music theorist active in Germany, England and New York. Author of … (1935), an important collection of Hebrew songs from the pre-state Jewish communities in the Land of Israel. For full biographies and official …
Joseph Singer
… Born in Hilnik , Hungary , officiated as cantor in Beuthen, Nurnberg and Vienna (where he succeeded Salomon Sulzer … published numerous studies on Jewish music and was among the first to investigate prayer chants scientifically, in an attempt to systemize the traditional prayer modes. Sources: …
Milan Slavicky
… and pedagogue. He came from a musical family. His father Klement Slavický and both his grandfathers Kamil Voborský and Klement Slavický were composers. … Milan Slavický studied composition at JAMU in Brno, under the instruction of Jan Kapr. He then went on to study …
Michal Smoira-Cohn
… Born in Tel Aviv, Michal Smoira-Cohn studied at the Palestine Academy of Music (graduated 1947), and later … are, to name a few: Editor of Bat Kol magazine; director of the Haifa Symphony Orchestra; music critic for Ha'aretz … newspaper; and lecturer at Tel Aviv University and at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem. Her writings …
David Aaron de Sola
… family of Sephardim, who emigrated from Spain in 1492 and the family have settled mainly in Holland. At just eleven … years of age, David Aaron de Sola entered as a student to the bet ha-midrash in Amsterdam, studying diligently, and … In 1818, D.A. de Sola was called to London to become one of the ministers of the Bevis Marks Congregation under Haham …
Avraham Soltes
… to parents who recently arrived from Eastern Europe. His father, Mordechai Soltes had earned a Ph.D. in education, from … interested in nature and sports. But by adolescence his other side began to emerge: in graduating from New Port High … in six different areas. Avraham Soltes graduated from the City College of New York in 1937 and received a master's …
Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa
… Jacques Stroumsa was born in Salonika in 1913, the son of a distinguished teacher and a talented milliner. The oldest of four children, he showed musical talent at a … engineering, while simultaneously taking violin lessons at the Lycée Musicale. Upon finishing that program, he moved to …
Ghizela Suliteanu
… folk and religious music in Romania. She researched in other fields of ethnomusicology as well, such as: folk music of Tatars and Turkish communities in Romania and the psychology of folk music. Sources: Encyclopedia Judaica , The World of Music Journal . … Romanian ethnomusicologist … …
Ramon Tasat
… was born in Buenos Aires. He learned Ladino at his grandmother’s knee. He sings many styles including opera and more, but he mainly sings from the rich culture of the Sephardic Jews. He is the cantor of Shirat Hanefesh …
Moshe Taube
… Born in Cracow, Poland. After the holocaust, he immigrated to Palestine, where he worked as a cantor in Tel- Aviv. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1957, and officiated as cantor in New York and …