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Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… The son of Ukranian-Jewish immigrants, Sholom Kalib was a mainstay of Jewish music in mid-twentieth century Chicago, serving as a … by Charlie Bernhaut with Sholom Kalib see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoP2GA0IvgQ Music arranged and composed …
Menashe Ravina
… years old, his family relocated to Novogrudok , where his father took on the role of chief cantor, leading a synagogue … attended a yeshiva and trained in violin and piano. From a young age, he actively participated in his father's musical pursuits, serving as a choir conductor in the …
Joachim Stutschewsky
… cellist, composer, arranger, and writer, a founder of the Society for the Development of Jewish Music in Vienna, and a cellist in the famous Viennese … he initiated in Beit-Brener in Tel-Aviv encouraged many young composers at the time, for he arranged for their works …
Samuel Adler
… Samuel Adler was born in Mannheim, Germany (1928). His father was Hugo Chaim Adler , a cantor and composer. The … of Temple Emanuel in Worcester, Massachusetts. There the young Samuel Adler displayed his musical talents at an early age. He became his father’s …
Nissan Cohen-Melamed
… born in Shiraz, Persia, in 1906. His parents, who promised themselves to immigrate to Palestine upon the birth of their … of two to Palestine, and settled in Jerusalem. Already at a young age Melamed showed interest in music. He used to visit the various synagogues in his area …
Joseph Dorfman
… in Odessa, Ukraine. He studied Piano and Composition at the Odessa Academy (1958-1965), and later studied Musicology and Composition at the Gnessin Musical Institute … receiving his PhD in 1971. He started teaching already as a young student at the Odessa Academy around 1960, and was …
Eric Mandell
… Mandell passed away in Philadelphia on February 6, 1988. Musically gifted since his youth, he trained under prominent cantors of his time. At the age of twenty, the Jewish community of Bochum engaged …
Eleanor Gordon Mlotek
… in New York in a Yiddish-speaking family. She attended the Yiddish High School of the Sholem Aleichem Folks … was then living in Calgary in Canada. After the course, the young couple was forced to separate. Because he was on only … and quickly gained a name for herself as a scholar of music and folklore. In 1970, she and Yosl began writing a …
Joseph Mlotek
… Joseph Mlotek was born in the town of Proszowice, Poland, and moved with his family to Warsaw at the age of 7. As a young man, he was active in the Bund and other Jewish labor …