(62 results found)
Mordechai Yardeni (Motl Sherman)
… Theater Union, President of the United States and Canada Cantors, Vice President of the United Jewish Radio Stations, … playwright, songwriter, and lecturer. … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – Cantors,Cantors – Hazzanim,Chazzanut,Chazzan,Hazzan,Hazzanim,Cantors …
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 … was for several years president of the Society of American Cantors. From 1895, he was honorary member of the Central …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… prayer leader). He was a descendant of a family of cantors and singers associated with Hassidic courts in … Hassidic music (“Haneginah haḥasidit,” Sefer Hashanah: The American Hebrew Yearbook 1 [1931], 74–87). Geshuri dismissed …
Hugo Adler
… he was awarded first prize by the Central Conference of American Rabbis for his liturgical settings. Hugo Adler is … in Germany and later in the US … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – Cantors,Cantors – Hazzanim,Chazzanut,Chazzan,Hazzan,Hazzanim,Cantors …
Sholom Secunda
… with his family. In November 1907 Mr. Wolf, a manager of cantors and concert artists in New York, offered to help pay … of their organization was similar to that of the ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers); they … Not Higher' and 'Yizkor.' … Composer … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – Cantors,Cantors – …
Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)
… In 1937, he was one of the leaders in the formation of The Cantors-Ministers Cultural Organization, and from 1939-1940 … he served as the president of the Jewish Ministers Cantors Association of America. In addition, he was an … of articles dealing with Jewish liturgical music and the American cantorate. Weisser passed away in 1952, just before …
Mordekhai Hershman
… in several synagogue choirs accompanying distinguished cantors. According to Zaludkowski (who probably received … wartime disruptions he was not at first well known to the American Jewish community. Word of his resplendent tenor … … Hazzan … Cantorate … Cantor … Ukraine … Synagogue music … American cantors … Yiddish Theater … Yiddish Films … Yiddish …
Jacob Beimel
… (synagogue music, folk songs, and Hassidic melodies). … American cantor, composer and musicologist … Hazzan, Hazan, Chazzan, Chazzanut, Hazzanim, Hazzanim – Cantors, Cantors – Hazzanim, Cantors … Belarus … Berlin … Copenhagen …
Jan Peerce
… served as a cultural ambassador to Moscow and was the first American to perform with the Bolshoi Theatre Opera. Peerce … works and Jewish folksongs. … Tenor … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – Cantors,Cantors – Hazzanim,Chazzanut,Chazzan,Hazzan,Hazzanim,Cantors …
Richard Tucker
… In addition to his work as Hazzan, he was a highly regarded American opera tenor. … Opera tenor and cantor … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – Cantors,Cantors – Hazzanim,Chazzanut,Chazzan,Hazzan,Hazzanim,Cantors …