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Zalman Zylbercweig
… moved to Lodz with his family, where he enrolled in a modern religious Jewish school. Zylbercweig continued his secondary education … articles, adaptations of novels, and reviews of books, music, and Yiddish theater. In 1922, Zylbercweig began to …
Harry Kandel
… American clarinetist and bandleader, one of the pioneers of modern klezmer music. He ran an orchestra which consisted of a variety of … … 0 … American Klezmer Music … Poland … Clarinetist … Jewish music … Recording … Harry Kandel …
Haim Effendi
… In spite of his unparalleled fame as a singer and musician during his lifetime, very few details about the … Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old traditional Ottoman Jewish community ruled by rabbinical authority was shattered by modernizing trends characterized by an exposure to Western …
Ram Da-Oz
… and lost his eyesight. Afterward he continued to study music, including piano, oboe, theory and composition, and graduated from the Israel Academy of Music, Tel Aviv (1953). Da-Oz has written Israeli Art Music, employing modern styles and techniques of atonality and free tonality …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… all of his career. He is most closely associated with the Jewish community of Dubno (today in western Ukraine), but … throughout Eastern Europe. Because of the exceptional musical and emotional power of his singing, he attained a … Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. For a modern transcription see Katz 2021-2022. Selected …
Israel Goldfarb
… to New York in 1893. Although he had a pleasant voice and musical talent, his brother, Samuel Eliezer Goldfarb was … in music, Israel went to study for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA). As a … he put much effort in promoting the establishment of a modern cantorial school. The work of the Society made …
Miriam Gideon
… in Greeley, Colorado. From an early age, Gideon displayed musical talents and began studying piano. Miriam continued … her Doctorate in Composition and Sacred Music from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA). She taught at … of Jewish Music. … American Composer … American composers … Modern Jewish music … Piano … Professor … Miriam Gideon …
Rahamim Amar
… and was the 20th generation in Jerusalem. He started his music career when he served as a trumpet player in the … his release from the army, he began to specialize in other musical instruments. He especially loved plucked string … after the establishment of the state, Amar combined more modern elements in his compositions, taken from Israeli …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… 17, 1859. His father, Rabbi Eliyahu Navon, was one of the Jewish intellectuals and public figures in Adrianpole, a … of Adrianpole excelled especially in Hebrew poetry and in music, two fields in which Isaac Eliyahu Navon excelled as … combined contemporary themes and language idioms taken from modern Hebrew poetry. He also wrote religious poems which …
Joseph Papernikoff
… Thanks to his voice, a beautiful alto voice, and his musical hearing, he was accepted at the age of 8 to the … early 1920s he joined the Poalei Zion Left Party, which saw modern Yiddish literature as a central part of Jewish identity. Papernikoff was active in the cultural life …