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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 Bet Sefer Lemel, the elementary … (now the Julliard School of Music). In 1924, he became the cantor for the Society for the Advancement of Judaism …
Nissan Spivak
… most sources agree on his Lithuanian origin. Spivak sang in the choir of Yeruham Blindman in Berdichev. Later, he officiated as cantor in Belz (hence his nickname), Kishinev, and in … that led him to develop original synagogue music in which the choir, instead of being merely an accompaniment or used …
Reuben Rinder
… Galicia (today’s Poland), in 1887, Reuben Rinder studied at the local Yeshiva, where he received training in Bible, Talmud and Liturgy. In 1902, he moved to the United States and pursued his study of Jewish liturgical music. In 1910, Rinder held a cantorial position at Temple Beth-El, Brooklyn, and in 1912 …
Federico Consolo
… a violinist, until a nerve injury ended his career. After the injury he devoted himself to composition and research. … d'Israele (1892), a work containing traditional tunes of the Sephardic Jews of Italy. Source: Encyclopedia Judaica . … … Hazan, Chazzan, Chazzanut, Hazzanut, Hazzanim, Hazzanim – Cantors, Cantors – Hazzanim, Cantors … Judeo-Spanish - …
Haim Effendi
… and musician during his lifetime, very few details about the life of Haim Effendi have reached us. Born Haim Behar … (a.k.a. Edirneli Haim Effendi and Haim Yapağı, i.e. “Haim the Woolman or Wool Merchant,” because the family owned some … called Portugal. Haim, however, did not become a full-time cantor who also happened to record songs in Ladino, as …
Eliakum Zunser
… and Zionism, and as a badhan he became a legendary figure. The name Zunser was probably derived from Zunse (a small … to Vilna, where he was born. In his early youth he attended the 'Heder' and sang with cantor Joel Ihumener in Bobruisk. Because of poverty and …
Joshua (Osias) Abrass
… with Bezalel Schulsinger in Odessa. Joshua officiated as a cantor in Tarnopol (1840-1842) and in Lvov (1842-1858), and … 1884). In his memoirs, Cantor Pinchas Minkowski relates the story of the “cantors’ battle” in Odessa between Joshua Abrass and …
Joseph Altschul
… Cantor-composer, teacher and Thalmudic-scholar. Born in Vilna. Studied Talmud in Courland and cantorial arts in Berdichev with Yeruham Blindman. … of his many compositions has been preserved (thanks to the work of cantor and researcher Eduard Birnbaum). A …
Joseph Albaradani
… Joseph Albarandi lived in Baghdad during the tenth century. Sources suggest that he was of Babylonian … Baradan- a suburb of Baghdad. Albarandi composed poems for the Annual Torah reading cycle, in addition … to various piyutim. His father, Haim Albaradani was a cantor and a poet, and his piyutim had probably influenced …
Jacob Bachman
… He began his music studies in Moshe Pasternak’s choir at the local synagogue. When he was eighteen, Bachmann went to study at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under Anton Rubinstein, … 'westerner of Russian music,'* Bachmann choose a career in cantorate. He began his career with short-term offices in …