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Avraham Soltes
… many cultural and educational activities that interpreted Jewish art, music, and literature. He was chairman of the National Jewish Music Council from 1963 to 1969 and a member of the … after week, he interwove the threads of Israeli history and culture with its musical heritage and that of Judaism at …
Ramon Tasat
… including opera and more, but he mainly sings from the rich culture of the Sephardic Jews. He is the cantor of Shirat Hanefesh (Song of the Soul), an emerging Jewish congregation in southern Montgomery County, MD. He is … also the president of Shalshelet: The Foundation for New Jewish Liturgical Music. (The picture was taken from Tasat's …
Viktor Ullmann
… individual musicians were preserved, shedding light on the culture and participants of the musical life in Terezín. … them to H.G. Adler after the war. Ullmann’s interest in Jewish themes peaked for the first time in Terezín, …
Esther R. Warkov
… seminal contributions to the study of Arab music and Arab-Jewish musicians in Iraq and Israel feature prominently on … website . She has also contributed biographies of Iraqi-Jewish musicians for this website. Warkov received a … improvisation by these musicians as an indicator of culture change. Warkov’s research and musical analysis …
Akiva Zimmermann
… immersed himself in the world of Hebrew books and Hebrew culture at its best. He was well versed in literature and the press and a great scholar of all Jewish and Israeli beings. He knew many of Israel's leaders … personally, particularly regarding their relationship to Jewish tradition and beliefs. Zimmerman had an immense …
Amnon Netzer
… was a leading authority on Iranian history and culture as well as Persian and Judeo-Persian languages. … biography can be viewed at Amnon Netzer Center For Iranian Jewish History And Heritage' s website. Autobiography by …
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 … Belarus, and his exposure to the Haskalah and modern German culture that spread to the new Jewish settlements of …
Abraham Goldfaden
… 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 … five years of his life involved in promoting the growing culture of Yiddish literature and theater. Click here to …
Albert Elias
… maqam Ajam , 1995. Haki Ovadiya and Elias . More sources: Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited …
Bence Szabolcsi
… son of Miksa Szabolcsi (1856-1915), editor of the Hungarian Jewish weekly Egyenlőség . He studied musicology at Leipzig … 'Proclamation Style' in Hebrew music ' in Studies of the Jewish Music Research Centre, ed. Israel Adler. Jerusalem: … Judit. ' Jews and Hungarians in Modern Hungarian Musical Culture ' in Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume IX: …