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David Aaron de Sola
… Raphael Meldola (who would also later become his father-in-law). He wrote several books and essays. D.A. de Sola had a … in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. Biographies: see Jewish Encyclopedia website. 'David de Aaron de Sola' in … RICHARD D. “Haham Meldola and Hazan de Sola.” Transactions (Jewish Historical Society of England) 21 (1962): 1–38. De …
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. …
Viktor Ullmann
… In 1918, Viktor enrolled at the Vienna University as a law student, supplementing his studies with private piano … them to H.G. Adler after the war. Ullmann’s interest in Jewish themes peaked for the first time in Terezín, …
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 … to southern Poland] with six of his sons and his sons-in-law to the court of the Rebbe in Khantchin during the High …
Abraham Goldfaden
… avoid the draft, Golfaden’s father took advantage of a new law mandating that Jewish students attending public school would be except from … he began publishing a satirical journal, Yisrolec for the Jewish community living there. The journal was in …
Albert Elias
… composer and instrument maker. In Baghdad Elias studied law as well as the nay with a Syrian teacher. He played with … of tarab music, which he greatly enjoyed. He also studied law for two years, but had to quit his studies upon … maqam Ajam , 1995. Haki Ovadiya and Elias . More sources: Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited …
Nahum Nardi
… on tour in Europe. During that tour, while visiting the Jewish Community center in Berlin, Nardi met the Yemenite … Na'ama (1931-1989), and they began a joint concert tour of Jewish communities in Poland, Germany, Latvia, Belgium, … began performing separately. Their separation climaxed in a lawsuit filed by Nardi for rights over their songs, which he …
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… and Sara. During the Balkan War (1912-1913), many young Jewish residents of Jerusalem fled the city or hid in order … on a cargo boat exporting oranges to Malta . The small Jewish community of Malta wasn’t able to utilize the … In 1967, with help from Sharel Hadad, who was also a lawyer, Asher Mizrahi returned to Israel after almost forty …
Karel Reiner
… June 27, 1910 in Žatec (Western Bohemia). Reiner studied law and musicology at the Charles University in Prague, and … Czech territories issued a ban on public performances by Jewish musicians. From 1939 until 1943, Reiner worked for the Jewish Community office in Prague, organizing musical …
Shmerke Kaczerginski
… during World War I. As a youth, he was involved with outlawed Communist groups and was arrested several times, … 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 …