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Moishe Teitsh
… wrote also in journals and newspapers. Full biography from the 'Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre'. … Yiddish journalist, poet and novelist … Yiddish …
Victor Tunkel
… In Memoriam The Jewish Music Music Research Centre bemoans the loss of Victor Tunkel, avid collector and scholar of Jewish music, who passed away on July 28, 2019, at the age of 85. Mr. Tunkel was a barrister and senior …
Viktor Ullmann
… Těšín), Czech Republic on January 1, 1898. Ullmann’s father was an officer in the Austrian Imperial Army stationed in Teschen. In 1909, the Ullmann family moved to Vienna, and Viktor began …
Samuel Vigoda
… Born in Dobrzyń, Poland. Studied with his father and later with Yossele Rosenblatt . Vigoda officiated as cantor in Budapest, and in 1933 immigrated to the US, where he continued in cantorial offices in New York (taking Rosenblatt's position at the Oheb Zedek synagogue) and in Washington. He is one of …
Chemjo Vinaver
… in Warsaw and continued in Berlin, where he also conducted the Haniggun choir. The choir sang Jewish music, and he toured Europe and Palestine with them. From 1926 to 1933 he worked as a conductor at the New …
Esther R. Warkov
… Esther Warkov's seminal contributions to the study of Arab music and Arab-Jewish musicians in Iraq and Israel feature prominently on the JMRC website . She has also contributed biographies of …
Daniel Meir Weil
… In the field of Jewish musicology, he earned a second PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1994 ( Prof. Dalia Cohen thesis advisor) on the original performance of the Tiberian …
Hirsch Weintraub
… Hirsch Weintraub was born in Dubno , Poland . He was the son of cantor-composer Solomon Weintraub , and started … training at an early age singing as a chorister in his father's choir in Dubno, and also receiving formal studies of … in Königsberg . From 1829 to 1834 Weintraub succeeded his father as cantor in Dubno, likely as his father intended. In …
Albert Weisser
… parentage. He attended high school in Queens and sang in the choir of his uncle, the renowned cantor Joshua S. Weisser . He studied piano … York University in 1940. In 1942 he was drafted into the U.S. Army, and later earned a Purple Heart for wounds …
Stefan Wolpe
… In 1934 he went to Palestine and moved in 1938 to the United States. Full biography at Wikipedia . See more at Home of the Stefan Wolpe Society … composer … Composers … 0 … …