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Efraim Yaakov

… of Hogeriya, documenting, recording, and publishing the literature and poetry of the Jews from Hogeriya in Israel. …

… , 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 …

Eliezer S. Abinun

… in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1912. He began his studies at the Jewish seminary in Sarajevo, where his father, though not a … 16th century. With its vigorous cultural life and vibrant Jewish press, it eventually flourished as a center of Jewish … the London community. His knowledge of Hebrew grammar and literature was deep and broad. He remarked that he had …

Emanuel Zamir

… and in 1947 he moved to Haifa to teach. He also studied Literature, bible studies, and language studies at the … he wrote in reference to the pioneering spirit of the young Jewish ' H alutzim' who were settling Palestine and working …

Issachar Miron-Michrovsky

… the first Nazi death camp of the “final solution of the Jewish question.” Their holy remains were buried in the … most horrible crime of crimes. After his discharge from the Jewish Brigade of the British Army, where Issachar Miron … Rudolf Ganz included in his revision of the Hutcheson's Literature of Piano , and his Clavier treatise …

Moshe Wilensky

… returned to Warsaw. In his youth, Wilensky attended the Jewish " Eskela " Gymnasium, which offered Hebrew … stage. He also composed music for films produced by the Jewish National Fund ('Hakeren Hakayemet') and for "Yomani … composers and directors to preserve copyright in music and literature, alongside the promoter Zeev Markovich. Prominent …