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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 …
Avner Bahat
… of Musicology. In 1981, he established the Center for Jewish Music at Beit Hatfutsot, and from 1984 he began producing records, and later CDs, of Jewish music. Among the many CDs he recorded are Piyyutim … Innocent) – The Diwan Songs of the Jews of Central Yemen – Poetry-Music-Dance. (Written according to the autobiography …
Mordechai Breuer
… the Kahal Adat Yisrael congregation in Frankfurt am Main, poetry and cantorship occupied a significant place. As a … and holidays. In Israel, Breuer taught the history of Jewish music at the conservatory. In the 1950s, he taught at … was made systematically according to topics in the Jewish calendar as follows: introduction and personal …
Abraham Eilam-Amzallag
… doctorate in 1986. In addition, he studied Hebrew medieval poetry, Arabic and English literature. Avraham Amzallag … Western compositional techniques. His works fuse Oriental Jewish melisma and modern techniques. In 1994 he … nine years from its establishment. For the first time the Jewish version of the Andalusian music was transcribed by …