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Ya'akov Orland
… construction of foundational national buildings like the Jewish Agency headquarters, the Yeshurun Synagogue, and the … theater informally and organized readings of English poetry, often from his translations. Orland became … Drama in London. During this time, he completed his first poetry collection, Ilan Baruach ("Tree in the Wind"), a work …
Arno Nadel
… Arno Nadel was born in Vilna, Lithuania and began his Jewish musical education in Koenigsberg under cantor Eduard … a private cantorial student. In 1895 Nadel enrolled in the Jewish Teacher’s Institute in Berlin, and upon graduation … and Biblical themes, including the play, Adam (1917), and poetry collections: Rot und gluehend ist das Auge des …
Moshe Zacuto
… The Musical World of Moses Zacuto in Light of his Sacred Poetry . Seroussi's article can also be found here through …
Heinrich Schalit
… chamber, and piano music, as well as songs. He used Hebrew poetry for some of his compositions, and composed Jewish liturgical music. Sources: Nulman, Macy. 'Schalit, Heinrich.' Concise Encycloedia of Jewish Music ; 'Schalit, Heinrich.' Encyclopaedia Judaica ; …
Pavel Haas
… Study for Strings (1943) and Four Songs on Chinese Poetry (1944). His list of compositions includes choral and … and chamber music, and an opera. Haas' pieces influenced by Jewish music include Al S'fod (1942) composed to Hebrew words by David Shim'oni, and Fantasy on a Jewish Melody (1943). Lubomír Peduzzi mentions several …
Karel Reiner
… Czech territories issued a ban on public performances by Jewish musicians. From 1939 until 1943, Reiner worked for the Jewish Community office in Prague, organizing musical … Fried, and assumed work on a cycle of choruses based on the poetry of Christian Morgenstein. Karel Reiner was one of …
Hirsch Glik
… 1920 to a working class family in Vilna. Glik began writing poetry at the age of 13, and was involved throughout his … writing of this song; first, a battle between a group of Jewish partisans and SS officers in the forests near Vilna …
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) …