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Uzi Hitman
… path, and he used to play recordings of his father's singing whenever he had visitors. In addition to the … Israel) for his lifetime achievement as a composer in the "Hebrew song" genre, as many of his songs became an integral … See here the full version of Uzi Hitman's biography in Hebrew, written by Talila Eliram. … Israeli songwriter & …
Leon Blank
… was just a boy, his family moved to Romania, where he began singing in a local Synagogue choir. Even from an early age, … to a busy performing schedule, Blank helped to found the Hebrew Actors Union in 1899. During the 1920’s Blank …
Joel Walbe
… Quellen: ein Beitrag zur hebräischen Musikologie (The Singing of Israel and its Sources: a Contribution to Hebrew Musicology) , which was published as a book in 1975. …
Abraham Ber Birnbaum
… turned to a music career at a young age; he began by singing in the synagogue choir of the local cantor Leizerke, … His other musical activities included: publishing the first Hebrew magazine for music and cantorate issues, Yarhon …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… of the exceptional musical and emotional power of his singing, he attained a degree of fame and stardom comparable … religious devotion and piety, and of a great knowledge of Hebrew literature…. His ...performance was overwhelming, and … biography of Salomon, published in ten installments in the Hebrew newspaper Ha-maggid in 1875. Its appearance …
Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Friedman
… the 1960's, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer camps. Jewish youth first … Friedman’s compositional corpus includes music for the Hebrew liturgy, English translations and interpretations of …
Israel Goldfarb
… three cantorial schools: the School of Sacred Music at the Hebrew Union College, the Cantors Institute at the JTSA, and … Goldfarb worked to create songs adapted to congregational singing, which were requested by the youth, especially by … Together they published songsters suited for communal singing and for use in schools. In their work, they tried to …
Moshe Rudinow
… War I. While in the conservatory, he met his wife-to-be and singing companion, Ruth Leviash. Following his studies, … While working there, he translated Russian songs into Hebrew and Yiddish, and performed the music of Jewish …
Nathan Shahar
… Natan Shachar began his academic studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he studied economics … where he completed his BA. and MA. He did his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, about Hebrew singing. This field remained his area of expertise, on …
Yehiel 'Adaki
… as an embroiderer. As a child, 'Adaki studied Torah and Hebrew. When he was nine, his father died, and his mother … events happening throughout. The singers used to build a singing program for each event and party. 'Adaki got to know … wa ya rabb-ljalali', which is part in Arabic and part in Hebrew (…) They had nice voices. After three verses of the …