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Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)
… York City, Weisser took many short-term positions officiating holiday services. In 1923, he was appointed hazzan of …

The Tedeschian Community
… in the surroundings of the Tedeschian Jews, in order to distinguish the immigrant community from the local community. … all of the Tedeschian Jews communities were in the Po Valley [2] and its surroundings: Gorizia, Genoa, Venice, … dilemma between preserving their German culture against adapting to the local culture in Italy. Ultimately, the need to …
Nahum Nardi
… Warsaw Conservatory and at the Vienna Music Academy, graduating in 1922. Following his graduation, Nardi began … repertoire in his concerts. In 1923 he immigrated to Palestine and continued performing, combining his classical … 1929, Nardi and the violinist Moshe Weisbord, whom he accompanied on the piano, went on tour in Europe. During that …
Moshe Wilensky
… from high school and, at Edel's recommendation, continued his music studies at the State Conservatory of … In 1934, Dov Mayblet, owner of the "Achva" record company, selected Wilensky to arrange 30 popular songs of the … " Haroa Haktana Min Hagay " ("The Little Shepherd from the Valley"), were performed by Damari. That year, he was also …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… ti zimliak" from the JMRC's album Kulmus Hanefesh … Celebrating Passover, the Song of the Month is dedicated to “E h ad … the end of the Passover seder , generally by all the participants right before “ H ad gadya ”, also a cumulative song. … such as Rabbi Asher ben Ye h iel, who fled the Rhein valley following the late thirteenth century persecutions and …
Abraham Baer
… German-speaking Jewish world by all accounts, had everlasting effects. Four European editions of Baal T’fillah … A/M, 1883; Frankfurt A/M, ca. 1900; Nürnberg, 1930) attesting to a continuous demand well into the early 1930s. The remarkable …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… The offering that was wont to be Brought day by day continually. Thou who art clothed with righteousness, … yet, Even as the offering unto Thee Offered of old continually. O Thou, whose mercy faileth not, To us Thy … that Cohen already proposed at this early stage that the Spanish-Dutch, i.e. Western Sephardic, melody is probably the …
Brakha Tzefira
… and melodies. They used to challenge themselves by attempting to suit the words of Hebrew poems, especially those of … her teachers at Kedma recommended that she should study acting instead. She moved to Tel Aviv and was accepted to the … the songs I would sing to him, and try to improvise an accompaniment. I sang Bialik’s “Yesh Li Gan” and “Bein Nahar …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… was of the family house burning down in a pogrom, the exciting adventures of the boy Berlin in the New York streets … seeped through to Kaplan’s account, or have even been expanded by him. The father, whose only verified occupations … (absence of citation for some statements regrettably continues throughout the book. The photo can be found online, …
הארי וון טילזר
… שירים אלו הפכו פופולריים בקרב כוכבי הוודביל וסמטת טין פאן (Tin Pan Alley). נורה בייס ביצעה את השיר 'Down Where the Wurzburger …