… to his academic studies, he studied halakha with two of the greatest rabbis of Yemeni Jewry in Israel: Mary Yosef Kapach … of the Hida (R. Chaim Yosef David Azulay), one of the greatest rabbinic authority in Jerusalem at the end of the … himself as documenting a world that has disappeared, with a great deal of justice. A degree of sadness is cast on his …

… Rabbi Gurje Yair, was an educator and one of the greatest cantors of Iraq. As a child, he grew up in … many piyyutim from Alep. His melodies were performed by the great Sepharad cantors, including Moshe Havusha, Zion …

… conducting the choir at the Brody Synagogue taught him a great deal about vocal arrangement and choral composition. … Conservatory of Odessa.           Odessa was one of the great centers of the  Haskalah  Movement, and as such, David …

… as a cantor in St. Petersburg (1912-1917) and achieved great esteem both in the local Jewish community and across …

… for the USA, he was for a short time choir director of the Great Warsaw Synagogue. His wife, Sonya, and two daughters, …

… noted violin masters of his day and regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a …

… In spite of the meager information regarding an artist of great merit as Haim Effendi, the hard-core evidence, namely, … believe that these records still exist. Haim Effendi was a great singer, he sang for the Turkish Sultan, for [Abdul] …

… collector of Sephardi songs Isaac Levi named him 'the greatest Sephardi singer in the first half of the 20th … Jews but also by the Turks who considered him one of their greatest musicians, honoring him with the titles of Efendi … by Spanish refugees in New York  in the 1940s: 'The great… singer of romances, Don Isaac Algazi known as ‘the …

… education. He received his first cantorial post at the Great Synagogue of Vilna. In 1924, Koussevitsky was chosen … Africa and Israel , gaining wide recognition as one of the greatest cantors of his time. … 49900 … Cantor … …

… he was 17. He played violin, sang, composed, and achieved great musical fame in Iraq together with his brother, Daoud, … his own arrangements of the music of his grandfather and great-uncle (2011).   Selected Recordings: Maqam Rast for …

… to Marguerite of Savoy. Salamone de Rossi also took great interest in liturgical music composition. He called … de Rossi’s Ha-Shirim Asher li-Shelomo . Naumbourg went to great lengths to collect all of the parts of Rossi’s score, …

… the years 1934-1941 he served as the chief cantor of the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv. Ravitz was a great educator of the hazzanut  theory, and generations of …