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Joel Rubin
… and scholar of Jewish music. Since becoming involved in the Klezmer revival in the late 1970s, he has been researching, teaching, and …
Isadore Freed
… was born in Brest-Litovsk , Russia on March 26, 1900 . At the age of three, his family immigrated to the United States and settled in Philadelphia , PA. Freed … expanded his course offerings to include a class devoted to Jewish modes. In 1958, Freed published the treatise, …
Frederick Piket
… his childhood and early career in Europe, and immigrated to the United States in 1940, at the age of 37. His interest in synagogue composition began … as an organist and as music director of the White Plains Jewish Community center in the early 1950’s. Subsequently, …
David Beyglman
… at a young age, studying several instruments, chiefly the clarinet and the violin. In 1912, he became the director of the Yitskhok … 1940, Begylman along with approximately 230,000 other Jewish residents were deported to the Lodz ghetto in the …
Heinrich Schalit
… organist in synagogues in Munich and in Rome. Immigrated to the U.S. in 1940 and held positions as a synagogue organist … Hebrew poetry for some of his compositions, and composed Jewish liturgical music. Sources: Nulman, Macy. 'Schalit, … Heinrich.' Encyclopaedia Judaica ; Kahn, Eliott. 'The Heinrich Schalit Collection.' Further Reading: Biography …
Lazare Saminsky
… Ukraine. He studied composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory (1906-1910). In 1908 he became a founding member of the Society for Jewish Folk Music , working as its first secretary. During …
Abraham Dunajewski
… Abraham Dunajewski was born in Russia. He wrote the book Israelitische … His melody for Av Horahamim has become popular throughout the world. … Rusian cantor … Abraham Dunajewski …
Boris Thomashefsky
… a small town near Kiev, Ukraine in 1868. He immigrated to the United States in 1881, and settled in New York City. … to New York, Thomashefsky joined a Synagogue chorister on the Lower East Side, which brought him in contact with … produced and starred in a wide variety of productions: Jewish versions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Goethe’s Faust, …
Gideon Klein
… composer, born December 6, 1919, in Přerov (Moravia). At the age of twelve, Klein moved to Prague to study music and liberal arts at the Jirasek Gymnasium. While in Prague, he supplemented his … Klein relocated his performances to the private homes of Jewish colleagues and friends. Klein’s commitment to the …
Max Helfman
… Max Helfman was a Polish-born American Jewish composer, choral conductor, pianist, singer, and … Di naye hagode (1948), a Yiddish-language Cantata about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He directed many choirs and educational institutes on both the east and west coasts, most famously the Brandeis-Bardin …