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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
… to Warsaw. In his youth, he studied at the 'Eskela' Jewish Gymnasium, where the Hebrew was taught in addition to general studies. Moshe Wilensky's talent for music was discovered at the age of four when he played the … he composed music for films of ' Hakeren Hakayemet ' (the Jewish National Fund) and ' Yomani Carmel ' ('My diary …
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 …
Henech Kon
… A composer of musical theatre, Henech Kon was an important member of the thriving inter-war Polish-Jewish cultural scene. He wrote popular songs, and … participated in a wide variety of cultural activities for Jewish and non-Jewish Poles. Full biographies: Neil W. …