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Paul Dessau
… . Immigrated from Germany in 1933 and returned in 1948 (to East Germany ). Known mostly for his collaboration with the famous playwright, Bertolt Brecht, for whose plays he wrote incidental music. Used some Jewish themes in his music (specifically in his oratorio, Haggadah …
Erich Walter Sternberg
… (Berlin, 1891 – Tel-Aviv 1974, immigrated in 1932) was the first local composer performed by the Palestine Orchestra (1937). His style was mostly … Jewish than Israeli” because of that Zeitgeist favoring East-West syntheses, and hence under-appreciated – as was …
Abraham Goldfaden
… Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro Konstantinov, … of sources including synagogue melodies, Jewish folksongs, Eastern European folk and popular music, and Italian and …
Gershom Sizomu
… Gershom Sizomu is an Ugandan rabbi serving the Abayudaya, a Baganda community in eastern Uganda near the town of Mbale who practice Judaism. In 2007 he published …
Albert Elias
… instrument maker. In Baghdad Elias studied law as well as the nay with a Syrian teacher. He played with some of the greatest stars of Iraqi music, including Nazem … publication Taqasim: Instrumental Improvisations in Near Eastern Tradition . ( Listen here ) Elias play Iraqi style . …
Mark Kopytman
… in composition (Moscow Conservatory, 1958), he taught at the Leningrad Conservatory before emigrating to Israel, where he has taught at the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem since 1973. He established a … he became interested in heterophony, following local East-West syntheses he heard. His unique interpretation of …
Michael Lukin
… A research associate, specializing in the traditional culture of Yiddish speakers. His recent publications, featured in Polin , The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore , Musica Judaica , Yuval , Musik …
Yizhak Edel
… was born in Warsaw in 1896 to a Hassidic family. His grandfather, a Hassidic scholar, took responsibility for his … parents moved to Rovna, he went to live with his grandfather. In his grandfather’s house, Edel received a Jewish … European. He drew deeply on the themes of Jewish music from Eastern Europe, although he combined it with the …
Zecharia Plavin
… Born in Vilnius in 1956, studied at the Ciurlionis School of Arts and Vilnius Conservatoire … since 1980, including Israel Philharmonc Orchestra, and other orchestras, also in Europe and USA, under numerous … colleges. Many master-classes in USA and Europe - West and East, since 1993. Social writing and publications for …
Joseph Achron
… . His musical genius became evident early on and at the age of five he began violin lessons with his father. Achron continued his formal musical education at St. … as a concert violinist throughout Europe and the Near East , finally settling in New York in 1925. There, he …