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Michele Bolaffi
… to the Duke of Cambridge; toured in Germany with singer Angelica Catalani; and was in the service if Louis XVIII as a …
Mikhail Gnesin
… teachers Liadov, Glazunov and Rimsky-Korsakov. After traveling and studying throughout Europe , Gnesin returned to … idioms, “Elements of Jewish music captured my musical feelings and imagination to such an extent that even when I …
Mordekhai Hershman
… his appearance (for free) on behalf of the 'Chernikhover Relief Fund'. From an early age Hershman was a child singer … sold, showing the porous line separating secular from the religious musical practices led by great cantors of the time … , Shirim Records S-1002, published after 1953. Zaludkowski, Elias. Kulturtrager von der judischen liturgie: …
Hanina Karaczewski
… arrangements were published posthumously in the collection Zelilei Hanina (1927). Several of his songs gained wide …
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… Asher was married at a young age to Rachel of the house of Elishaich, with whom he had two daughters, Rebecca and Sara. … the city or hid in order to escape the Turkish draft. Rabbi Eliyahu Panigel, a wealthy merchant and admirer of Asher … In 1926, he was invited to perform at the great Synagogue Eliyahu Ha’Navi in Alexandria , Egypt . In awe of Mizrahi's …
David Abikzer
… moved to Israel with his family, where he served in the Israeli army and got married. Five years later, he was offered a … Rashim (embedded below), sung to an arrangement by Israeli composer Arieh Levanon that appears on Abikzer's album …
Eliezer S. Abinun
… The Rev Eliezer Abinun Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1912. He began … and spiritual happiness. Equally at ease with his religion and his secular surroundings, Abinun was a kindly … memorial to him and as a guide to those who follow. The Rev Eliezer Abinun retired as senior chazan of the Spanish and …
Isaac Offenbach
… His manuscripts were donated to The Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, and to the Birnbaum Collection at …
Jacques Offenbach
… Offenbach advanced his career as a cello virtuoso, traveling throughout France and Germany and performing with …
Morton Shanok
… Cantor at Temple B’nai Abraham in Beverly and then became Religious Cultural Co-Ordinator at the Jewish Rehabilitation …