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Marysia (Miriam) Eisenstadt
… Young singer who performed classical and Jewish music concerts in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. … …
Shmerke Kaczerginski
… 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 … for Jewish Research website ' Shmerke Kaczerginski ' in Music during the Holocaust website. Other sources: Werb, …
Yankele Hershkowitz (Herszkowicz)
… is known about Yankele Hershkowitz’s personal life, his musical contribution to the cultural life of the Lodz ghetto … from Vienna . Hershkowitz was one of the only street musicians that earned enough money to survive. The Lodz … he became active in the cultural affairs of the city’s Jewish community. Hershkowitz was deeply saddened by the …
Neil Levin
… and academic life to the scholarly study of the music of Jewish experience from historical, musicological, … lectured, written, and taught courses on a diverse array of Jewish and Judaically related musical subjects spanning a …
Nurit Hirsh
… 'Bashana Haba'a,' and 'Lalehet Shevi Ahare'a.' She composed music for poems by Hayim Nahman Bialik, Natan Alterman, Lea … at both national and international festivals. She wrote music for cinema, television, theatre and video. Nurit Hirsh … Hirsh graduated with a degree in Piano from the Rubin Music Academy. Among her teachers: Alexander Boch, Mordechai …
Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… by Ascap Today as, 'a major force in today's liturgical music.' Issachar Miron has made a name for himself … 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 …
Avraham Slep
… It is not known where he was born or where he received his musical education. Slep began his career as a singing teacher at the Vilna Jewish School. There he conducted a choir that brought him … became a professor of solfege at the Vilna Institute of Jewish Music, among whose teachers was Eliyahu Malkin, the …
Moshe Wilensky
… returned to Warsaw. In his youth, Wilensky attended the Jewish " Eskela " Gymnasium, which offered Hebrew instruction alongside general studies. Wilensky's musical talent emerged at four when he began playing the … stage. He also composed music for films produced by the Jewish National Fund ('Hakeren Hakayemet') and for "Yomani …
Richard Newman
… and received a master's degree from the Vienna Academy of Music. In 1937 he emigrated with his family to the United … In the 1950s and 1960s he conducted the choirs of the Jewish Centers in Hillcrest, Long Island, various synagogues … the music program of the Greater New York Council for Jewish Education. He is the author of numerous articles and …
Elio Piattelli
… from the oral traditions of the various rites of the Roman Jewish community as well as original compositions for … from the University of Rome in 1931, he pursued his innate musicality studying in Rome with Maestro Cesare Dobici … of the oral traditions of cantors from the various Italian Jewish rites and traditions. Piattelli transcribed not only …