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David Menahem
… Orchestra. He also composed a melody for the Kaddish prayer performed by David Daor. He composed songs from …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… 17, 1859. His father, Rabbi Eliyahu Navon, was one of the Jewish intellectuals and public figures in Adrianpole, a … urban centers of the Ottoman Empire in the 1860s: Haskalah (Jewish enlightenment) and Jewish nationalism. Educated Jews … Navon also published Ladino translations of piyyutim and prayers. The goal of these translations was to bring these …
Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin (Maharil)
… urging them to institute a general season of fasting and prayer. The German communities, obeying the call, fasted for … 'Bi'urim' to Yoreh De'ah, is extant in manuscript. Source: Jewish Encyclopedia. … Rabbi and teacher of Mayence, cantor …
Israel Alter
… of the School of Sacred Music at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, where he had an enormous … 1961 and 1971, Alter wrote and published the complete prayers for Shabbat, the High Holidays, festivals, and … (where a melody in a specific word is borrowed from another prayer, thereby "referencing" it). Additional bibliography …
Abraham Wolf Binder
… of cantors and into a world enriched by synagogue music and Jewish folklore. He was a member of his father’s synagogue … developed his knowledge and love of nusach ha’tfillah (prayer melodies). He continued his involvement in Jewish choral music, forming the Hadassah Choral Union in …
Abraham Baer
… and Samuel Naumbourg , covering the liturgy of the entire Jewish calendar year. This major anthology by Baer, cantor … until his death), a minor corner of the German-speaking Jewish world by all accounts, had everlasting effects. Four … about the life of Baer, see Hammarlund, Anders. A Prayer for Modernity: Politics and Culture in the World of …
Mordechai Breuer
… Hanoar near Gadera for about seven years. There, he led prayers in a style that combined the various communities of … and holidays. In Israel, Breuer taught the history of Jewish music at the conservatory. In the 1950s, he taught at … was made systematically according to topics in the Jewish calendar as follows: introduction and personal …
Judit Frigyesi
… (with expertise in the music of Béla Bartók and Ashkenazic prayer chant). Her archive is the largest integral … of full liturgies of services with interviews) of the Jewish tradition recorded in East Europe and the largest … prose and photographs, the experience of the sound of Jewish prayer. … Musicologist … Judit Frigyesi …
David de Sola Pool
… Dr. David de Sola Pool translated and edited the Sephardic prayer book for the Union of Sephardic Congregations and the Ashkenazic prayer book for the Rabbinical Council of America. He also … Activist ,' Conversations, the journal of the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals, Issue 28. 'David de Sola Pool ' at …
Yehuda Ratzaby
… and deprivation. There, he learned the traditional prayers according to the local custom, and how to read the … and was awarded a doctorate. From 1964, he taught Arabic-Jewish literature and medieval Hebrew literature at Bar-Ilan …