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Moshe Nathanson
… a traditional heder (all-boys religious school) in the old city of Jerusalem. Moshe left the heder to attend … the director of the choir. Sheldon Feinberg, in his book “A Song Without Words” claims that Idelsohn assigned his students to compose …
Joel Walbe
… Jewish families in Russia. He first studied Torah in the Heder, and then proceeded to general studies with … that Walbe began composing. In 1927 he published his first song, 'Shir Hashtil.' Many of his songs were intended to fit … He composed Horas (Israeli dance) like 'Hora Medura,' with words by Natan Alterman, shepherd songs like 'Seh Vegdi,' …
Nikolai Kaufman
… as one of Bulgaria's foremost music scholars. Although the vast majority of his academic and artistic output was in … and singing psalms from holy books. He loved to sing old songs in Yiddish…but his children never learned them. Only my mother knew part of his repertoire which, in her words, was a huge one indeed. And she probably learned the …