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Joel Walbe
… he published his first song, 'Shir Hashtil.' Many of his songs were intended to fit the needs of settling Zionists in … like 'Hora Medura,' with words by Natan Alterman, shepherd songs like 'Seh Vegdi,' and other Zionist songs. Walbe … Singing of Israel and its Sources: a Contribution to Hebrew Musicology) , which was published as a book in 1975. …
Haim Effendi
… Maftirim used to perform its ancient repertoire of Ottoman Hebrew music on Sabbath mornings and afternoons at the … not become a full-time cantor who also happened to record songs in Ladino, as Isaac Algazi did. He moved into what … four languages: Judeo-Spanish; Turkish; Arabic; and modern Hebrew, along with his command of the religious Hebrew …
Eliakum Zunser
… Eastern European poet and singer. He is known for his songs that preached nationalism and Zionism, and as a badhan … with the elite of Vilna, and he was encouraged to study Hebrew literature and history. After his second marriage … becoming his most popular song both in the Yiddish and Hebrew versions. Its theme was the joy of returning to plow …
Emanuel Amiran (Pougatchov)
… Due to the fact that his father founded and directed Hebrew schools in both Warsaw and Moscow, Emanuel's education was grounded in the Hebrew language, the Bible and the fundamentals of Jewish … and composer. His compositions include over 600 Hebrew folksongs, incidental music for theater and cinema, music for …
Davit Civita
… a collection of seventeen three-voice Canzoni (italian songs) which has the marking, 'Madrigali Ebrei' (Hebrew Madrigals). Source: Encyclopedia Judaica . … Italian …
Ram Da-Oz
… melodies for his works. He has also written Israeli folksongs. He plays an important role in the musical life of … Judaica, Grove Music Online. References: Biography in Hebrew: Cohen, Yehuda. Neimej smiroth Israel [The Heirs of …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… 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 … _____. 2010. “Music That Escaped: Transcriptions of Two Songs of Praise From a Surviving, but Still Hidden, …
Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Friedman
… Friedman’s compositional corpus includes music for the Hebrew liturgy, English translations and interpretations of liturgical and religious Jewish themes, educational songs for children, community and identity-building songs for youth, and introspective songs meant for spiritual …
Israel Goldfarb
… three cantorial schools: the School of Sacred Music at the Hebrew Union College, the Cantors Institute at the JTSA, and … generation closer to Judaism, Goldfarb worked to create songs adapted to congregational singing, which were … advance Jewish musical education. Together they published songsters suited for communal singing and for use in …
Rahamim Amar
… Soon after that, Amar became Aharon’s partner in the Hebrew section of the Palestine Broadcast Service (PBS), the … a unique compositional style, blending the Ottoman Hebrew tradition in which he was brought up in the Sephardic … Rahamim Amar composed about three hundred songs, piyyutim and liturgical compositions. Most of his …