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Shmerke Kaczerginski
… At the age of 15 he began publishing original songs and poetry, including Tates, mames, kinderlekh ('Fathers, … 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 …
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 … liturgical music” and a winner of multiple prizes for poetry. The Musical Heritage released his 4 liturgical …
Elio Piattelli
… from the oral traditions of the various rites of the Roman Jewish community as well as original compositions for … of the oral traditions of cantors from the various Italian Jewish rites and traditions. Piattelli transcribed not only … compositions for various liturgical texts and modern Hebrew poetry. Already in 1937 he published, 'Enèyha (Your eyes) …
Eliakum Zunser
… versions. Its theme was the joy of returning to plow the Jewish earth in the Holy Land. Zunser himself hoped to … and was named by the New York Times 'father of Yiddish poetry.' Zunser wrote approximately 600 songs, published … online March, 1 2009. Nulman, Macy. Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music , New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1975. ' …
Mary Even-Or
… music. Her music explores themes from the Bible, Hebrew poetry, Kabbalistic poetry, and Japanese poetry. Her compositions have been performed by a variety of …
Pnina Salzman
… Ben-Haim—“a composer who has the sense of beauty, love, and poetry,” noted Salzman. She also premiered the Piano …
David Menahem
… by David Daor. He composed songs from contemporary poetry, from the songs of Yosef Ozer, Elhanan Nir, and …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… 17, 1859. His father, Rabbi Eliyahu Navon, was one of the Jewish intellectuals and public figures in Adrianpole, a … The scholars of Adrianpole excelled especially in Hebrew poetry and in music, two fields in which Isaac Eliyahu Navon … urban centers of the Ottoman Empire in the 1860s: Haskalah (Jewish enlightenment) and Jewish nationalism. Educated Jews …
Else Lasker-Schüler
… Else Lasker-Schüler was a German-Jewish poet and playwright famous for her bohemian lifestyle in Berlin and her poetry. She was one of the few women affiliated with … translated bu Yehuda Amichai. … German-Jewish poet and playwright … 0 … Poet … German Jews … Else …
Joseph Papernikoff
… which saw modern Yiddish literature as a central part of Jewish identity. Papernikoff was active in the cultural life … uncles, and cousins were killed. Since 1918 his melodious poetry, with its rich imagery and folklike quality has … ('In the Sunny Land,' 1927). Until World War II, eight poetry collections by him were published in Warsaw and Tel …