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Hashkivenu
… Singing Hashkivenu with a distinctive melody in the Friday night service is characteristic of the North African traditions and possibly influenced its singing in the Amsterdam tradition. New melodies for this text were …
Lekha dodi
… Kabbalat shabbat ("Welcoming of the Sabbath"), a ritual developed by the kabbalists of Safed in the sixteenth century, is one of the most musically rich …
Shelomo Morag
… Shlomo Morag was an Israeli professor at the department of Hebrew Language at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Morag founded the Jewish Oral Traditions Research Center at the Hebrew …
Moshe Havusha
… in Jerusalem’s Beit Israel neighborhood. He absorbed the ancient Iraqi traditions of prayer and piyyutim from his grandfather, Hakham Gurji Yair, who was a prominent hazzan in Baghdad and then in Jerusalem. As a young boy, Havusha became attracted …
Karel Berman
… of opera in Opava. In March, 1943, Berman was deported to Theresienstadt, where he took part in cultural life as a … July 1944, for example, he and Rafael Schächter produced the "Four songs to words of Chinese poetry " by Pavel Haas for the first time. In 1944 he composed Suite Terezin in three …
Max Gabel
… and adaptations of Broadway successes. His first play was The Sea King , 1895, performed in New York. Later he managed Gabel's Star Theater and other New York playhouses. He wrote and produced plays for …
Esther Rokhl Kaminska
… Esther Rachel Kamińska was a Polish Jewish actress. She began her professional career as a stylist and made her theatre debut in 1888 in Warsaw. From 1893 she performed with the theatre ensemble of her future husband, Avraham Izaak …
Isaac Levy
… born in Manisa near Izmir to a Sephardic Jewish family. At the age of three, he moved with his family to then Mandatory Palestine. Levy studied at the Conservatory of Music in Jerusalem (now the Jerusalem …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… There are scholars of Jewish and Israeli culture whose … contributions remain sealed to those who do not command the Hebrew language. Eliyahu Hacohen was perhaps among the most notable ones in this genre of learned individuals. …
A. Irma Cohon
… In collaboration with the National Council of Jewish Women, Cohon authored … was released in 1923. This work served as a cornerstone for the Council’s music education initiatives for nearly three … Children’s Succoth Celebration . Her legacy is preserved in the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, which holds her …