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Avraham Soltes
… in all shapes and forms. Even as a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College (now HUC-JIR), this last interest … Jewish art, music, and literature. He was chairman of the National Jewish Music Council from 1963 to 1969 and a member … major work on Jewish Music, Off the Willows: The Rebirth of Modern Jewish Music. board of the National Jewish Book …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… (now Mysłowice, Poland), Geshuri (a name derived from the Hebrew for “bridge,” an equivalent of the German “Bruck”) … frontier with Belarus, and his exposure to the Haskalah and modern German culture that spread to the new Jewish … author of Haskalah books that served as a bridge to the new national-Zionist period. (Geshuri, 1970, part 1, 1) Geshuri …
Joseph Achron
… best marked by one of his earliest and most famous works, A Hebrew Melody (1911). In 1913 he moved to Russia to take a … him in his obituary as: “one of the most under-estimated modern composers; the originality and profound elaboration … attempts were entirely affected by the same paradigm of national musical style, which half a century ago had …
Josef Tal (Gruenthal)
… to those of Schoenberg’s in Style and Idea : against nationalism in music that is based on folklore, and … Academy (1948-1952); and the musicology department of the Hebrew University (1965-1970), where he taught between 1951 … cantatas and dramas – mostly based on Biblical or modern Hebrew texts. He collaborated with librettist Israel …
Mordekhai Hershman
… “a great concert at the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall“. The Hebrew press in British Palestine profusely advertised … example, you can listen to Hershman’s amazing voice at the National Library of Israel … have become classics and are frequently performed by modern Chazanim. Eilu Devarim , Shma Koleinu and Aneinu are …
Julius Chajes
… Orchestra. He was the Honor Prize winner at the First International Competition for Pianists in Vienna in 1933. One … Palestine, Chajes conducted extensive research on ancient Hebrew music. In the wake of this research and due to the … and became known as one of the foremost composers of modern Israeli music. After moving to the United States …
Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… When the State of Israel was established he was named the National Deputy Director of Music for Israel's Ministry of … Miron's works: Syncopated Preludes and Passacaglia for Moderns , highly commended by Artur Rubinstein, and recorded … work include the international mega hit 'Tzena Tzena' with Hebrew words by Yehiel Hagiz, and English words by Gordon …
Elio Piattelli
… Politeama Theater of Palermo, Sicily. He taught courses in Hebrew liturgical chant in Italy (Rome, Palestrina, Turin, … with a very simple method that takes into account the modern Sephardi pronunciation of Hebrew practiced in Israel. … it is a disappearing tradition...' ( Yearbook of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia , 1970, pp. 106-107). This …
Zalman Zylbercweig
… of Lodz, Poland. His father was Tsvi-Hirsh Zylbercweig, a Hebrew and Yiddish writer. As a young boy, Zalman moved to Lodz with his family, where he enrolled in a modern religious Jewish school. Zylbercweig continued his … with a number of social institutions including the Jewish National Workers' Alliance, and the United Emergency Relief …
Haim Effendi
… community ruled by rabbinical authority was shattered by modernizing trends characterized by an exposure to Western … French), to liberal trends in Judaism (especially to Jewish nationalism or Zionism) and to subversive political … Maftirim used to perform its ancient repertoire of Ottoman Hebrew music on Sabbath mornings and afternoons at the …