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Rahamim Amar
… and was the 20th generation in Jerusalem. He started his music career when he served as a trumpet player in the … his release from the army, he began to specialize in other musical instruments. He especially loved plucked string … Israeli music. His purpose in this combination was to make Eastern music accessible to a more diverse audience. Before …
Salah El Kuweiti
… 17. He played violin, sang, composed, and achieved great musical fame in Iraq together with his brother, Daoud, who … El Kuweiti performed “mainstream” and other Middle Eastern styles but reportedly preferred Iraqi style. He was very important to Baghdadi musical life – headed the Iraqi broadcasting channel …
David Menahem
… Moshe Havusha , taught him the secrets of the Arab Maqam musical system and Arabic musical instruments. Since childhood, along with pursuing … active in promoting the world of Piyyut and Middle Eastern music in Israel. He takes part in the 'Kehilot …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… of Adrianpole excelled especially in Hebrew poetry and in music, two fields in which Isaac Eliyahu Navon excelled as … enlightenment) and Jewish nationalism. Educated Jews from eastern and central Europe who settled in Adrianpole had … Palestine. He settled in Jerusalem and committed himself to music and poetry. He invested most of his time and fortune …
Jan Radzynski
… to Israel in 1969, and studied at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music. In 1977, he moved to the U.S. and studied at Yale … to Yuval Shaked, [1] Radzynski's compositions merge musical elements of the Jewish Eastern European cantorate, Middle Eastern heterophony, and …
Max Weinreich
… pp. 13. Full biography at The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe . … Yiddish linguist … Yiddish … Languages … …
Karel Salmon
… He immigrated to Palestine in 1933, and was the first musical director of the Palestine Broadcasting Service … until 1962. Salmon also taught at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. His works include orchestral and chamber … attempted to blend the Western-European style with near-Eastern, Mediterranean, and Jewish folklore. Salmon often …
Ray Musiker
… Ray is the fourth generation in a family of Klezmer musicians. As a child, Ray learned to play Klezmer dance music at Jewish weddings. His parents immigrants to America … Russia. From his parents, Ray inhererited a love of Eastern European Jewish music from Russia, Poland, Romania, …
Israel Alter
… Ukraine) into a Hasidic family with many rabbis. He studied music in Vienna with cantors and teachers of singing and … in 1961 and joined the faculty of the School of Sacred Music at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of … but he sang in the tenor range. He mastered both the Eastern European and Western cantorial styles and …
Moses Beregovski
… born in the Ukraine in 1892. He was exposed to liturgical music at an early age through his father who was a teacher at the Kiev Jewish Music School and a ba’al kore (official who reads the Torah … on his projected five volume collection and study of Eastern European Jewish folk music. It is unclear exactly …