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Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa
… raging typhus epidemic. This was the state of affairs when American tanks reached the camp on 8 May 1945. After his …
Moshe Taube
… … Cantorate … Hazzanut … Hazzan … Synagogue … Music … American … Polish … Cantor … Moshe Taube …
Samuel Vigoda
… … Cantorate … Hazzan … Chazzan … Hazzanut … Chazzanut … American … Cantor … Immigration … Samuel Vigoda …
Esther R. Warkov
… Warkov see here . For Warkov's publications see here . … American Ethnomusicologist, Educator and Social Activist … …
Albert Weisser
… While serving as first president of the newly founded American Society for Jewish Music (1974–82), he conceived … Composer, Editor, and Choral Conductor … Musicologist … American … Choir … Conductor … Composer … Albert Weisser …
Mordechai Yardeni (Motl Sherman)
Mordechai Yardeni was Born as Motl Sherman in 1906 in the town of Slovechno (Volyn…
Joseph Yasser
… in various synagogues and was one of the founders of the American Musicological Society. His research deals with …
Alois Kaiser
… 10, 1840, Szobotist, Hungary - 1908, Baltimore, Maryland) American hazzan and composer, and considered to be the founder of American cantorate. Kaiser received his early education in … He was for several years president of the Society of American Cantors. From 1895, he was honorary member of the …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… Hassidic music (“Haneginah haḥasidit,” Sefer Hashanah: The American Hebrew Yearbook 1 [1931], 74–87). Geshuri dismissed …
Sigmund Schlesinger
… figures among the group of mid- to late-19th-century American synagogue organists and choirmasters who attempted … create and adapt music to suit the new ritual and format of American Reform congregations — before and especially after … took creditable part in the singing festivals of the North American Saengerbund in New Orleans, Cleveland, and …