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Haim Effendi
… In spite of his unparalleled fame as a singer and musician during his lifetime, very few details about the life of Haim Effendi have reached us. Born Haim Behar … (a.k.a. Edirneli Haim Effendi and Haim Yapağı, i.e. “Haim the Woolman or Wool Merchant,” because the family owned some …
Eliakum Zunser
… Eastern European poet and singer. He is known for his songs that preached nationalism … and Zionism, and as a badhan he became a legendary figure. The name Zunser was probably derived from Zunse (a small … to Vilna, where he was born. In his early youth he attended the 'Heder' and sang with cantor Joel Ihumener in Bobruisk. …
Joshua (Osias) Abrass
… considered a child prodigy, and studied with Bezalel Schulsinger in Odessa. Joshua officiated as a cantor in Tarnopol … 1884). In his memoirs, Cantor Pinchas Minkowski relates the story of the “cantors’ battle” in Odessa between Joshua Abrass and …
Menahem Avidom
… – Tel-Aviv, 1995, immigrated in 1935) was considered one of the most significant composers of his time. He initiated, chaired and supported, from 1955 to the end of his life, some of the most important music … arrangements for the unique Jewish-Yemenite artist and singer, Bracha Zefira, and based many of their compositions …
Shoshana Damari
… born in Damar, Yemen in 1923. She was taken to Israel at the age of two. She started performing in an early age. She is considered as one of the greatest Israeli folk singers, and had international recognition as well. Damari …
Edis De- Philippe
… Philippe was born in New York, U.S. She studied singing in the U.S. and Europe, and immigrated to Palestine in 1945. She was the founde of the Israel National Opera Company. … Opera singer and founder-director of the Israel National Opera …
Arik Einstein
… was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel. He is considered as one of the greatest Israeli singers. He recorded about 500 songs and 34 albums. Through his career He cooperated with the top Israeli musicians, and appeared in movies and TV …
Matti Caspi
… born in Kibbutz Hanita, Israel. He is considered as one of the top Israeli musicians. He has recorded 26 albums and … cooperated with Israel's top musicians. … 44136 … Israeli singer and songwriter … Mati Caspi, Mattie Caspi, Matti …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… Kashtan (Shlomoh ben Shimshon, or Salomon, the son of Samson), aka Salomon Weintraub By Daniel S. Katz … about 175 miles west of Kiev). He was apprenticed at the age of nine to an itinerant Eastern European cantor, and … he regularly went on tour with a small group of assistant singers (m’shor’rim) to sing and lead services in Jewish …
Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Friedman
… Deborah Lynn Friedman was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an important role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements …