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Mendi Rodan
Rodan was born in Yassi, Romania. He studied violin and conducting at the Bucharest…
Europa Rossi
… composer and musician Salamone Rossi , and the wife of the Jewish community leader David Ben Elisha. She had two sons, … and Angelo. She is considered to be the only professional Jewish female singer of her time, and the first to gain fame outside the Jewish community. Not much is known about Madama Europa, as …
Moshe Rudinow
… songs into Hebrew and Yiddish, and performed the music of Jewish composers such as Engel , Saminsky , and Milner . Due … The repertoire of their shows included operatic arias and Jewish songs, mainly sung by Moshe. In 1925, the couple left …
Ephraim Skliar
… 1903, he took part in the establishment of the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg. In 1912, he settled in … works and vocal arrangements, set in various genres of Jewish music such as Yiddish songs , among others. Sources: … Nulman, Macy. 'Skliar, Ephraim.' Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music ; Edelman, Marsha Bryan. Discovering Jewish …
Max Spicker
… works. Sources: Nulman, Macy. Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music . … Conductor, composer and teacher … Composer …
Simeon Bar-Isaac
Born in Mainz, Germany. An important scholar of his time. As a paytan he composed…
Mordechai Sobol
… the establishment of the Yuval Ensemble for cantorate and Jewish music, where he served as musical director and …
Alexander Tansman
… the US, but returned to Paris in 1946. Tansman incorporated Jewish elements into his works and was influenced by the …
Max Weinreich
… Max Weinreich was a Russian Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics …
Al-Gharid Al-Yahudi
… a Kohen descended from Aaron ben Amram and a member of the Jewish group living in Yathrib (i.e. Medina, the city of the … Muhammed). Al-Isfahani mentions in the same context other Jewish poets belonging to the same group, but the very fact …