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Arnold Schoenberg
… Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian-born composer and music theorist. He developed the twelve-tone technique, and is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. Full …
Robert Starer
… Born in Vienna, and came to Palestine after the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany. After serving in the British Air Force, he settled in the U.S. where he taught at several academies. As a …
Alexander Weprik
… in Leipzig, St. Petersburg, and Moscow. Later taught at the Moscow Conservatory (1924-1942). His compositions … works as well as chamber music, some which contain Jewish themes . Sources: Encyclopedia Judaica ; Concise …
Shulamit Ran
… winning Israeli Composer, currently serving on faculty at the University of Chicago. For full biography via the University of Chicago Department of Music website, click … be accessed here: https://shulamitran.wordpress.com/ Another extensive biography can be found at the Milken Archive …
Else Lasker-Schüler
… in Berlin and her poetry. She was one of the few women affiliated with the Expressionist movement. Lasker-Schüler fled Nazi Germany and lived out the rest of her life in Jerusalem. Some of …
Nathan Shahar
… Natan Shachar began his academic studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he studied … international relations. In those years he also studied at the Rubin Academy of Music. Until he began studying … a music teacher, conductor of choirs, and songwriter. Among the songs he composed were songs that won first prizes at …
Israel Najara
… using melodies of foreign songs that were common among the Jewish and non-Jewish public of his time. He is considered to be one of the greatest Hebrew poets of the period after the expulsion from Spain . Some of his …
Herman Svet
… Svet was born January 1, 1893, in Shpole (Kiev province of the Russian Empire, now Ukraine). His father, Menachem Mendel Sveta, was the local cantor. He studied at the 'cheder' (religious …
Obadiah the Proselyte
… Born in Oppido Lucano, Italy. At birth given the name Johannes. In 1102 converted to Judaism, and in order to further his study of Judaism traveled to Constantinople, … finally settling in Egypt and becoming a member of the thriving Jewish community situated there, where he wrote …
Avraham Shlonsky
… Avraham Shlonsky was an Israeli poet and editor, born in the Russian Empire. Full biography at Wikipedia. … Israeli …