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Neil Levin
… Artistic Director of the Milken Archive since 1993, Neil W. Levin has devoted his professional and academic life to the scholarly study of the music of Jewish experience from … history, development, and repertoire of synagogue music, cantorial art, Yiddish and Hebrew folksong, the music of …
Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… Israeli educator and composer;' in Variety, 'as one of the top composers;” and by Ascap Today as, 'a major force … Issachar Miron has made a name for himself throughout the world as a top talent, composer, poet, writer, creative … conducted by Issachar Miron. He is a laureate of the Cantors Assembly of America KAVOD AWARD for his “immense …
Richard Newman
… and teacher. Neumann was born on January 20, 1915 in the Ukraine, the son of Cantor Karl Neumann. He graduated from the …
Elio Piattelli
… Biography by Pasquale Troia Choirmaster of the Tempio Maggiore (Great Synagogue) in Rome from 1948 to 1984, Elio Piatelli enhanced the liturgical life of the synagogue (and beyond) with a … was engaged in the transcription of the oral traditions of cantors from the various Italian Jewish rites and …
Moses Michail Milner (Melnikoff)
… Milner was born in Rokitno, Ukraine. He sang with famous cantors in Kiev, later studying music in Kiev and in St. Petersburg, where he participated in the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music (1908). He composed many …
Uzi Hitman
… family lived in Giv'at Shmu'el. When Hitman turned 6 they moved to Ramat Gan, where he lived for the rest of his life. His parents were survivors of the … Belzen concentration camp. Hitman's father studied in a cantorial seminary with Cantor Moshe Koussevitzky and …
Jo Amar
… In the early 1960’s, Jo Amar was a Mizrahi music star. He … “Ismach Moshe, “Shir Hashikor,” “Harini Shar,” and others. Amar was a leader of the emerging Mizrahi music scene … his career he performed throughout the world, and conducted cantorial workshops in the United States and Europe. He was …
Joseph Roman Cycowski
… was a singer of opera and popular music in Europe, and a cantor in the United States. Cycowski born into a Hasidic family in … to Germany in 1921 to become an opera singer and joined the popular vocal sextet, the Comedian Harmonists in 1927. …
Abraham Ellstein
… sang as a chorister at local synagogue and also for the Metropolitan Opera Children's chorus. He studied at The Juilliard School, and later worked as an accompanist for … Picon , Mischa Mischakoff, Michel Piastro, Isa Kramer , and cantor Josef Rosenblatt . He is considered to be one of the …
Anshel Schorr
… Anshel Schorr, son of prominent Lemberg cantor Baruch Schorr , was a mainstay of Yiddish Theater in New York and Philadelphia. He worked as a … three decades of activity, Schorr collaborated with some of the Yiddish theater’s most renowned actors and composers …