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Tamar de Sola Pool
… from Hunter College in 1913, Pool taught comparative literature at Hunter from 1914 to 1917. She served as … 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 …
Samuel Rosenblatt
… College (1921) and received a rabbinical degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary (1925); he studied in Jerusalem … of Rabbis (1952); Mizrachi (1938–42); and the American Jewish Congress (1942–47). He lectured at Columbia … Hopkins University from 1930, Rosenblatt taught Jewish literature until 1947, and thereafter Oriental languages. …
Morris Rosenfeld
… was connected with the editorial staff of several leading Jewish newspapers. In 1904 he started publishing a weekly … was also the publisher and editor of a quarterly journal of literature (printed in Yiddish) entitled ' Jewish Annals '. Rosenfeld was considered as the 'poet of …
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 …
Efraim Yaakov
… of Hogeriya, documenting, recording, and publishing the literature and poetry of the Jews from Hogeriya in Israel. …
Akiva Zimmermann
… , cantors, history of hazzanut , hazzanut in halakhic literature, and more. Zimmerman had an unconventional and … 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 …
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 … bookshelf was rich in Jewish (especially Hassidic) literature, but also plentiful with maskilim and Zionist …
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 … life involved in promoting the growing culture of Yiddish literature and theater. Click here to view the online …
Shoshana Liessmann
… Studied Jewish Studies and Musicology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, graduated in Jewish Civilization at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. … Collection’, ‘Oratorio Ester’, 'Music in Kabbalistic Literature' and the databases 'Jewish and Israeli Music in …
Ya'akov Orland
… construction of foundational national buildings like the Jewish Agency headquarters, the Yeshurun Synagogue, and the … editor of the journal Mahbarot Lesifrut (Notebooks for Literature), which began publishing in 1941. Between 1936 … Wertheim Prize from Bar-Ilan University (1983), the ACUM Literature Prize (1984), the Alterman Prize (1987), Bialik …