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Isadore Freed
Isadore Freed was born in Brest-Litovsk, Russia on March 26, 1900. At the age of three,…
Josef Tal (Gruenthal)
Josef Tal (b. Pine, Germany 1910 - Jerusalem 2008, immigrated in 1934), composer,…
Wolf Shestapol
Born in Odessa, Ukraine. Officiated as cantor in Kherson and was a prolific composer,…
Sholom Secunda
Sholom Secunda was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson…
Joseph Achron
Joseph Achron was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania. His musical genius…
Shoshana Liessmann
Studied Jewish Studies and Musicology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-…
Hebraeisch-orientalischer Melodienschatz, 06[E]: Der Synagogengesang der deutschen Juden im 18. Jahrhundert [The Synagogue Song of the German Jews in the 18th Century]
Also exists in German. Synagogue music of the German Jews in the 18th century, according…
Blue Note: The Story of Modern Jazz
This documentary is a testament to the passion and vision of Alfred Lion and Frank Wolff…
Mordkhe Shekhter
Itsye Mordkhe Shekhter was born on December 1927, in Czernowitz, Ukraine. He descended…
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
In 1958, on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk…