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Maier Kohn
… der Synagoge in Muenchen , is considered the first modern collection of synagogue melodies. It includes his own …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… combined contemporary themes and language idioms taken from modern Hebrew poetry. He also wrote religious poems which … could not read Hebrew. Navon's knowledge in ancient and modern poetry came from his natural talents as a singer and …
Joseph Papernikoff
… early 1920s he joined the Poalei Zion Left Party, which saw modern Yiddish literature as a central part of Jewish …
Israel Adler
… revised previous paradigms in the study of music of early modern Jewish communities. In 1963, Adler returned to … music, any music, in Hebrew characters until the early modern period, a project that was published as Hebrew … Jewish communities in Western Europe , Adler promoted the modern publication of scores, the public performance of …
Abraham Baer
… the life of Baer, see Hammarlund, Anders. A Prayer for Modernity: Politics and Culture in the World of Abraham Baer …
Abraham Eilam-Amzallag
… techniques. His works fuse Oriental Jewish melisma and modern techniques. In 1994 he participated in the …
Ruth HaCohen (Pinczower)
… religious, social, and political worlds since early modernity. She has explored sound as a source for conflict, …
Andre Hajdu
… instrumental works in which he followed the romantic and modern European tradition of “pure” music. Examples of this … was basically tonal, he was an outsider during the peak of modernism. In a way, his music prophesied what was going to … through diverse styles. Clearly, his schooling in the modern Hungarian models of Bartók and Kodály, and the 1950s …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… (which number over 1,000) laid the foundation for the modern study of Jewish musicology. My Life: A Sketch by A.Z. … visited old-fashioned “Chadorim,” although there were many modern ones in Libau; my father wanted to implant within me … Schubert, etc. At the same time I was an ardent reader of Modern Hebrew literature, from M. Ch Luzzatto’s poetry to …
Salomon Sulzer
… and musician, Sulzer is considered by some as the father of modern cantorate. This is a result of his attempt to reform … reform, seen in his Schir Zion , was widely adopted by the modern synagogues of the mid-nineteenth century. He …