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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 … department. Ringer also served as visiting professor at the Eastman Schoolf of Music (1974), Tel Aviv University (1983), …
Morris Rosenfeld
… his family moved in 1876. He married Asna Beile and was the father of two daughters, Freidel and Reisel and a son, Yosef. … shed light on the living circumstances of emigrants from Eastern Europe in New York's tailoring workshops. His poems …
Avraham Soltes
… in New York City, 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 …
Esther R. Warkov
… Esther Warkov's seminal contributions to the study of Arab music and Arab-Jewish musicians in Iraq … relied on her skills as a student-performer of Middle Eastern music. She also made a substantial contribution to …
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 … Weintraub. Further bibliography: Hirsch Weintraub From East to West . … Cantor and composer … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – …
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 … The Modern Renaissance of Jewish Music: Events and Figures, Eastern Europe and America (1954). He also studied …
Efraim Yaakov
… Hogeriya in Yemen. He completed his academic degrees in the Department of History and Philosophy at the Hebrew University, where he served as an assistant to … of Spanish and Yemen Jewry and the history of science among Eastern Jews. He also dealt with the writings of the Hida …
Mordechai Yardeni (Motl Sherman)
… Mordechai Yardeni was Born as Motl Sherman in 1906 in the town of Slovechno (Volyn province of the Russian Empire, now Ukraine). His father, Chaim Sherman, … he began to accept offers from various synagogues on the East Coast of the United States and 'Jewish' hotels to work …
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 … literature. He moved to Berlin, the rapidly growing hub for Eastern European Jews seeking modern education, studied at a …
Kurt Weill
… Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau, Germany in 1900. His father was a cantor and his mother had rabbinical roots. After establishing himself with … Special Collections Department, Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. List of …