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Rabbi David Buzaglo
… is an opportunity to revive his biography in our website. A musical and rabbinical prodigy since his early days, Rabbi … of Casablanca and eventually to the Israeli, French, and American Moroccan Jewish diasporas. Moreover, he dedicated … exposure to the modern Hebrew song, a process that had started in Morocco, is his cover of “Bab el Wad,” a poem by …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… study aims to trace the unique characteristics of a type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European … movement was forming in those areas of Ukraine (then part of Poland and later the Russian Empire). By the … Koskoff, Ellen. 2001. Music in Lubavitcher Life. Music in American Life . Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Lukin, …
Joe Elias
… he was invited to perform at the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife as one of the first performers of Ladino music in this country in the current epoch. After his … the States, Joe helped organize concerts in New Mexico as part of a program to bring together the Jewish community with …
Pinchas Borenstein
… of Jeziorna Królewska, a suburb of Warsaw, which was then part of the Kingdom of Poland under the Russian Empire (now … From a young age, Borenstein demonstrated a passion for music. As a child, he sang in a synagogue choir in Warsaw. … Cantors … Argentina … Cantors - Hazzanim … Poland … American cantors … Opera … Ashkenazi liturgical music … …
Léibele Schwartz
… Schwartz was born in Brod, Poland, on March 22, 1928 as Yehudah Leib Kirzner. He began his music studies as a child with his father, Yaakov, who was a … in 1946. He shared the stage with two Eastern-European born American luminaries of the Yiddish theater, Berta Gersten …
Tehillat no. 1 (Sebastian Diaz Pena)
… - Emanuel archives. Tehillat for Cantor, soprano and two-part choir and organ, dated September 1912 (and therefore … and Raymond Goldstein (piano) … Judeo-Caribbean Currents: Music of the Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Curaçao … Jewish communities … Synagogue music … Afro American … America … Arrangements … caribbean … Communities …
Revisiting a Forgotten Treasure in Philadelphia
… is very well known among scholars and collectors of Jewish music for its rich musical resources. The most substantial … consists of more than 15,000 items. It includes books, articles, clippings, catalogues, anthologies, sheet music, … notified the son of cantor Hugo Chaim Adler, the notorious American composer Prof. Samuel Adler , who tells in front …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared … differ in their length and in some details. A third, partial autobiography in German was located in 2017 in a … funds for the 5th and partly for the 6th volume, but the American Council of Learned Societies decided to grant me a …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… and society. Yet something of that texts and tears, martyrs and saints approach still governs much of the … in the Jewish past. A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern … Palestine, Lithuanian Jewish South Africa, and Midwestern American Reform Judaism. What is missing is a picture of the …
A. Irma Cohon
… of Jewish Women, Cohon authored Introduction to Jewish Music in Eight Illustrated Lectures , a foundational text … education initiatives for nearly three decades. Cohon also partnered with renowned musicologist A.Z. Idelssohn to … Succoth Celebration . Her legacy is preserved in the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, which holds her …