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Moishe Oysher
… He immigrated to Canada in 1921, where he joined a traveling Yiddish theater company. In 1932, he founded a Yiddish …
Leibele Waldman
… Made many recordings of both liturgical pieces and Yiddish religious folksongs. … Cantor … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – …
Max Helfman
… educator. He had a long career arranging both secular and religious Jewish music and was considered to have a gift for … years; his influence is most strongly felt on the religious music of Reform Judaism. He was also well known for …
Emanuel Zamir
… served in the Israel Defense Forces during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. There he created groups of singers and … played an active role in the development of the Israeli folk dance. Zamir had a sense of mission, which he … from its content and sounds.' Prior to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Zamir toured Arab villages together with a group of …
Rafael Schächter
… in honor of his sixty year remembrance. Schächter delivered several successful performances of Verdi's Requiem …
Mordekhai Zeira
… Orland replied: 'No. Today it seems that way. While paralleling the songs to the historical events one can see a … and the history, were all part of life. There was a feeling as if you were accompanying the events because you … not finish. Appreciations of Zeira's work Dr Herzl Shmueli and Miryam Gros-Levin wrote on Zeira: [2] 'Mordekhai …
Yosef Hadar
… Yafa and his father Yehiel were both members of the Israeli Opera under Golinkin, and of the Tel Aviv Choir under … both classical/operatic repertoire and contemporary Israeli repertoire from his parents. At the age of seven, … lessons with Mordechai Seter , Paul Ben-Haim and Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra violin player Shlomo Bor. Hadar …
Hirsch Glik
… their cause, encouraging resistance, and creating a feeling of communal strength. Among many other songs …
Yankele Hershkowitz (Herszkowicz)
… by Karol Rosensweig, an amateur violinist and traveling salesman from Vienna . Hershkowitz was one of the only …
Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… in Christian Science Monitor as, 'a leading Israeli educator and composer;' in Variety, 'as one of the top … Officer-in-Chief of Art and Music programs for the Israeli Defense Army, where he introduced his concept of “ … by Artur Rubinstein, and recorded by the leading Israeli pianist Frank Peleg. His CD, I Remember, which contains …