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Aleksander Kulisiewicz
… and preserved the largest collection in existence of music composed in the Nazi camps. Because this extraordinary … touches on a variety of issues relevant not only to music scholarship but also contemporary European history, it … ' Aleksander Kulisiewicz' on Wikimedia. 'Songs of the ghettos, concentration camps, and World War II partisan …
Shmerke Kaczerginski
… to Kaczerginski's eventual imprisonment in the Vilna Ghetto, where he helped hide Jewish cultural works with … Partisans Organisation, participating in the failed Vilna Ghetto uprising and then escaping to the forest to fight … for Jewish Research website ' Shmerke Kaczerginski ' in Music during the Holocaust website. Other sources: Werb, …
Yankele Hershkowitz (Herszkowicz)
… tailor by trade, was a popular street performer in the Lodz ghetto. He composed and performed satirical songs pertaining to major events and to figures of the ghetto. While not much is known about Yankele Hershkowitz’s personal life, his musical contribution to the cultural life of the Lodz ghetto …
Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… by Ascap Today as, 'a major force in today's liturgical music.' Issachar Miron has made a name for himself … inhuman suffering in the winter of 1941 in the Kutno ghetto with other members, and relatives of his family and alongside some 7,000 other Kutno Jews. This short-lived ghetto became instantly a freezing inferno of disease, …
Avraham Slep
… It is not known where he was born or where he received his musical education. Slep began his career as a singing … During the years of Nazi occupation, Slep was in the Vilna ghetto. He and Tamara Girshovich, a piano teacher, managed … possible, Slep and his choir performed in concerts in the ghetto. A few months before the destruction of the Vilna …
Salah El Kuweiti
… 17. He played violin, sang, composed, and achieved great musical fame in Iraq together with his brother, Daoud, who … preferred Iraqi style. He was very important to Baghdadi musical life – headed the Iraqi broadcasting channel … brothers both felt that they were cornered into a cultural ghetto, due to the lack of appreciation of Arabic music in …
Europa Rossi
… 17 th centuries. Europa was the sister of composer and musician Salamone Rossi , and the wife of the Jewish … Europa, Jewish singer in late Renaissance Mantua.' in Festa Musicologica: Essays in Honor of George J. Buelow . ed. … Andy. 'The Barrocade Ensemble Presents: Music from the Ghetto of 16th Century Italy.' Jewish-Theatre website ; …
Israel Adler
… the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études and at the Institut de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and musical studies. During his thirteen-year sojourn in Paris … Italy (e.g. “The Rise of Art Music in the Italian Ghetto,” Jewish Medieval and Renaissance Studies, ed. A. …
Gila Flam
… Ph. D., University of California Los Angeles, Department of Music, 1988. Her thesis: Singing for Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940–45 was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1992. Director of the Music Department of the Jewish National and University …
Salamone Rossi
… Though much ink has been spilled reviewing the vast musical contribution of Jewish-Italian composer Salamone de … as the leader of an ensemble comprised mostly of Jewish musicians. While his first two works are dedicated to Duke … with Jewish theater troupes active in the Jewish ghetto, as well as in Christian communities and in the …