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Shlomo Ravitz
… the years 1934-1941 he served as the chief cantor of the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv. Ravitz was a great educator of the hazzanut theory, and generations of …
Milan Slavicky
… behind more than 500 classical music recordings, with a great emphasis on electroacoustic music. He also dealt with …
Avraham Soltes
… Temple Sharey Tefilo in East Orange and Temple Emanuel in Great Neck. He began his service at West Point as a …
Ghizela Suliteanu
… Romanian ethnomusicologist who collected a great deal of Ashkenazi and Sephardic folk and religious …
Victor Tunkel
… childhood as a choirboy at the Hendon Synagogue, where the great Cantor David Koussevitsky officiated. Mr. Tunkel was a … of the famous Zemel Choir created in 1955, and he also greatly contributed to initiatives in Jewish music in …
Hirsch Weintraub
… he left to study harmony in Vienna (where he was influenced greatly by Salomon Sulzer's style) and in Berlin. He also …
Albert Weisser
… Petersburg School. He was music director of Temple Israel (Great Neck) until 1960. He taught at Brooklyn College from …
Efraim Yaakov
… to his academic studies, he studied halakha with two of the greatest rabbis of Yemeni Jewry in Israel: Mary Yosef Kapach … of the Hida (R. Chaim Yosef David Azulay), one of the greatest rabbinic authority in Jerusalem at the end of the … himself as documenting a world that has disappeared, with a great deal of justice. A degree of sadness is cast on his …
Akiva Zimmermann
… Over the years, he developed a close relationship with the great cantors in Tel Aviv and around the world. He is … his own books on the subject. He also wrote about the great figures in the world of hazzanut in a dozen of his … best. He was well versed in literature and the press and a great scholar of all Jewish and Israeli beings. He knew many …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… nationalism issue, namely the aspiration to engage with great musical art as a universal edifying ideal, in conflict … expression of the Jewish people and revives before us that great and distant past with the immediate future… so that … to the Middle Rebbe, and it was performed without text with great devekut.” The Hassidim call this melody “The Wailing …