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Davit Civita
… Italian musician. One of the group of Jewish musicians connected with the court of the Gonzagas of …
Ram Da-Oz
Israeli composer. Born in Berlin. Immigrated to Palestine in 1934. While serving in the…
Yitzchak Eshel (Friedlander)
… of cantorial music and Yiddish songs, wrote articles about Jewish music, and composed original pieces. Source: …
Mary Even-Or
Born in Tel Aviv, Israel. She began her studies at the Music Teachers' Seminary in Tel…
Simon-David Duque
… joodsmonument website: The picture is from the Collection Jewish Historical Museum) … Cantor of the Portuguese …
Jacob Blanes
… monograph, Musical Life and Traditions of the Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam in the XVIIIth Century . … …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… all of his career. He is most closely associated with the Jewish community of Dubno (today in western Ukraine), but … assistant singers (m’shor’rim) to sing and lead services in Jewish communities throughout Eastern Europe. Because of the … later. Cantor Salomon became an acclaimed exponent of Jewish Eastern European culture and tradition. Christians as …
Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Friedman
… Deborah Lynn Friedman was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. Friedman’s compositional … out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer camps. Jewish youth first brought her music …
Israel Goldfarb
… in music, Israel went to study for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA). As a … a prominent figure in the Society for the Advancement of Jewish Music, he put much effort in promoting the … the Bureau of Education in New York , cooperated to advance Jewish musical education. Together they published songsters …
Miriam Gideon
… her Doctorate in Composition and Sacred Music from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA). She taught at … City College; City University New York (CUNY); the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (1955-91); and the … dramas. She composed a number of works on the subject of Jewish music, including Adon Olam (1954); Three Masques …