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Frida Zibel-Goldstein

Frida Zibel was a Yiddish actress. She performed at Galicia and America. Frida Zibel…

… in Yiddish vaudeville. Then she acted for four years in musical comedy under the leadership of Leon Errol, and then … theatre. Her deceased sister Bessie had performed in music halls.Zwerling's children Artie, Sidney and Albert …

Reuben Rinder

… United States and pursued his study of Jewish liturgical music. In 1910, Rinder held a cantorial position at Temple … Rinder was influential in shaping 20th-century Jewish musical culture. Through insights from the Rinder papers and Rose Rinder’s oral history (UC Berkeley), this paper connects Rinder’s approach …

Zalmen Mlotek

… Zalmen Mlotek is an American conductor, pianist, musical arranger, accompanist, composer, and the Artistic … recognized authority on Yiddish folk and theater music and a leading figure in the Jewish theatre and concert … National Library of Israel website. Zalmen Mlotek's Oral History (video) on Yiddish Book Center website. Interview …

Mickey Katz

… Meyer Myron 'Mickey' Katz was an American musician and comedian who specialized in Jewish humor. Katz … for his parodies, but he created more traditional klezmer music as well. Although he was primarily a jazz musician, … 'Katz, Meyer Myron' in Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. More Bibliography: Katz, Mickey, Papa, …

Haim Effendi

… In spite of his unparalleled fame as a singer and musician during his lifetime, very few details about the … critical era of deep social and cultural transition in the history of the Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old … in one of the most important centers of Sephardi religious music, Edirne, where a local Jewish choir called Maftirim …

Eliakum Zunser

… He was the first badhan to have a rudimentary knowledge of music. By his personal qualities he raised the profession of … Vilna, and he was encouraged to study Hebrew literature and history. After his second marriage Zunser lived chiefly in … 1 2009. Nulman, Macy. Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music , New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1975. ' …

Pnina Salzman

… But I fancy an innate sensibility and vitality of musical mind and feeling will preserve her from all that.” ( … Since 1969, she taught at the Samuel Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University, where she became a professor … Academy of Music, The First Fifty Years: Studies in the History of Higher Music Education in Israel 1945–1995 …

Leon Schidlowsky

… generation of composers at The Rubin Israel Academy of Music at Tel-Aviv University in the 1970's and 1980's, … works. They bear many textual references to the history of the Jewish people and to distinct Israeli …