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Dancing Wand
… choreographer, but first and foremost an educator. From the early 1950’s she devoted all of her time and energy to promoting artistic dance in Israel. She established the Dance Department at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, and headed the department for …
The Simeon Bellison Archives at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music and Dance : a catalogue
… A catalogue of the Simeon Bellison archives which is housed in the Jerusalem Acadaemy of Music and Dance. … 57 … 57 … 1 … The Simeon Bellison Archives at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music and Dance : a catalogue … The Simeon …
The Jewish Bloch
… Special Symposium Ernst Bloch: The Jew as European and American Composer On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of his Death The Jewish … Bloch Chair: Malcom Miller Zecharia Plavin, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance Bloch's Jewish-Hebrew musical …
Alexander L. Ringer
… educator of Dutch and Polish descent. He was a survivor of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. After the war, Ringer emigrated to New York City in 1947. There he … Tel Aviv University (1983), and Heidelberg University - Academy for Jewish Studies (1983). Ringer also gave guest …
Michal Smoira-Cohn
… Born in Tel Aviv, Michal Smoira-Cohn studied at the Palestine Academy of Music (graduated 1947), and later at Uppsala … are, to name a few: Editor of Bat Kol magazine; director of the Haifa Symphony Orchestra; music critic for Ha'aretz …
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 … chaplaincy at West Point. There at the U.S. Military Academy, for a period longer than that spent by any …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music traditions. He was also a public figure, being a significant activist in the Hapoel Hamizrachi movement, a religious socialist party … Conservatory of Music. He eventually moved to the Dresden Academy of Arts and the Technikum in Vienna. Following his …
Leib Glanz
… Leib Glanz was born in Kiev in 1898. His father was the cantor at the Synagogue of the Talna Hasidim and at a … of Religious Jewish Music, and headed the Cantorial Academy. … Cantor & composer … Leib Glanz …
Aaron Copland
… of Lithuanian Jewish descent. In 1917 he began studying theory and composition with Rubin Goldmark, continuing his … From 1921 to 1924 Copland studied with Nadia Boulanger at the Fontainebleau School of Music in Paris. During his time … William Wyler’s The Heiress (1949), for which he won an Academy Award. Throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s Copland …
Theodor Bikel
… to Palestine with his parents at age 13. Studied at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in London (1946-1948), and immigrated to the United States in the 1950's. As a singer and as an …