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Tamar de Sola Pool
… she worked with Hadassah’s Youth Aliyah program to rescue Jewish children from Europe and resettle them in Palestine. … with her husband on two books, Is There an Answer? about Jewish faith after the Holocaust, and An Old Faith in the New World , about their …
Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa
… end of the war. Gradually the Nazis imposed a series of ‘Jewish laws’, restricting activities and employment of Jewish Greeks. In March 1943, transports began to Auschwitz. … Konstanz: Hartung-Gorre Verlag, 1996. … violinist … 0 … Holocaust … Violinist … Saloniki … Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa …
Viktor Ullmann
… them to H.G. Adler after the war. Ullmann’s interest in Jewish themes peaked for the first time in Terezín, … … Director … Operas … Songs … Terezin … Auschwitz … Holocaust … Viktor Ullmann …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … as a scholar is still a major gap in the historiography of Jewish music. Born in Myslowitz, Upper Silesia, then part of … ambitious enterprise of the 1950s in the framework of post-Holocaust trauma. What was initially seen as a national …
Arno Nadel
… Arno Nadel was born in Vilna, Lithuania and began his Jewish musical education in Koenigsberg under cantor Eduard … a private cantorial student. In 1895 Nadel enrolled in the Jewish Teacher’s Institute in Berlin, and upon graduation … A full biography can be found here on the 'Music and the Holocaust' website. … German poet & liturgical musicologist …
Zikmund (Siegmund) Schul
… synagogue. This discovery sparked Schul's interest in Jewish musical themes, which he began to incorporate into … entrusted to Schul by the authorities at the offices of the Jewish community in Prague . Schul was deported to Terezín … biography can be accessed here on the 'Music and the Holocaust' website. … Jewish German composer, active …
Pavel Haas
… and chamber music, and an opera. Haas' pieces influenced by Jewish music include Al S'fod (1942) composed to Hebrew words by David Shim'oni, and Fantasy on a Jewish Melody (1943). Lubomír Peduzzi mentions several … Sources: Grove Music Online; Pavel Haas , Music and the Holocaust . Additional bibliography: Peduzzi, Lubomír. …
Shmerke Kaczerginski
… children'), and soon began organising Yung Vilne, a secular Jewish writing collective whose other members … imprisonment in the Vilna Ghetto, where he helped hide Jewish cultural works with Sutzkever as part of the Paper … the hidden cultural works and founded the first post-Holocaust Jewish museum in Europe; he quickly became …
Avraham Slep
… Slep began his career as a singing teacher at the Vilna Jewish School. There he conducted a choir that brought him … became a professor of solfege at the Vilna Institute of Jewish Music, among whose teachers was Eliyahu Malkin, the … … Conductor & music educator … 0 … Vilna … Ghetto music … Holocaust … Conductor … Avraham Slep …
Henech Kon
… was an important member of the thriving inter-war Polish-Jewish cultural scene. He wrote popular songs, and … participated in a wide variety of cultural activities for Jewish and non-Jewish Poles. Full biographies: Neil W. … of Jewish Music website. 'Henoch Kon' at T he Music and the Holocaust website. ' Henech Kon ' on Wikipedia. More …