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Abel Ehrlich
Abel Ehrlich (Cranz, 1915 – Tel-Aviv, 2003 immigrated in 1939), 1997 Israel Prize…
Abraham Caceres (Casseres)
Dutch composer. Abraham Caceres (Casseres) was the leading musician in the Portuguese…
Shlomo Carlebach
Rabbi, composer and performer. Shlomo Carlebach was born in Berlin, Germany. In 1939, he…
Ram Da-Oz
Israeli composer. Born in Berlin. Immigrated to Palestine in 1934. While serving in the…
Miriam Gideon
… continuing to study music. She eventually moved to New York City in order to study music under teachers such as Lazare … (JTSA). She taught at a number of institutions, including: City College; City University New York (CUNY); the Jewish Theological …
Yitzhak Graziani
Israeli conductor, arranger and composer. Yitzhak Graziani was born in Russe, Bulgaria.…
Joseph Michael Gusikow
Musician. Born in Shklov, Belorussia to a family of 'Klezmerim.' Became famous in Europe…
Rahamim Amar
… Amar was born in 1898 in the Jewish quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. His father’s family was of Sephardic … Jerusalem and according to family tradition, lived in the city for twenty generations. He started his music career as … brought up in the Sephardic synagogues of Jerusalem’s Old City with current trends of Arabic music, especially …
Marcus Hast
Born in Praga (near Warsaw). After serving as a cantor in Poland and Germany, he moved…
Boris Levenson
Born in Bessarbia. Studied and worked as a conductor in St. Petersburg, settling in the…