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Shlomo Ravitz
… and Fayge in Nevhardak, Belarus. Since childhood, he had musical talents. At the age of 12, he composed cantorial … founded by Haim Nachman Byalik. Ravitz managed the musical aspect of these Shabbat events, with his student …
Walter Salmen
… socio-historical perspective. He is one of the ancestors of musical iconography, one of the founding members of the RIdIM (Répertoire International d'Iconographie musicale) research group, of which he was elected an …
Milan Slavicky
… Czech composer, musicologist, and pedagogue. He came from a musical family. His father Klement Slavický and both his …
Avraham Soltes
… the threads of Israeli history and culture with its musical heritage and that of Judaism at large. He had an … to his insistent efforts as a Rabbi to integrate new musical elements into the service. It applied, finally, to …
Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa
… a talented milliner. The oldest of four children, he showed musical talent at a young age. After completing secondary … while simultaneously taking violin lessons at the Lycée Musicale. Upon finishing that program, he moved to Paris, … audition for the Birkenau men’s orchestra, where Stroumsa’s musical education so impressed the French director that he …
Viktor Ullmann
… the fall of 1927, Ullmann took a short-term engagement as musical director in Usti nad Labem (now Aussig). After one … anthroposophy movement, and subsequently ceased all musical activity for two years in order to run the … quickly became one of the leading figures in the camp’s musical life. He was active in Terezín during a time when …
Esther R. Warkov
… received a Fulbright for her MA research, Twentieth Century Musical Composition in Wales and its Relationship with … as an indicator of culture change. Warkov’s research and musical analysis relied on her skills as a student-performer … She also made a substantial contribution to the book The Musical Tradition of Iraqi Jews by Amnon Shiloah and wrote …
Daniel Meir Weil
… make accessible to a wider public the fruits of his archaeo-musical and halakhic research in that domain. See: " שיחזור …
Hirsch Weintraub
… son of cantor-composer Solomon Weintraub , and started his musical training at an early age singing as a chorister in …
Mordechai Yardeni (Motl Sherman)
… newspaper ' Yiddishe Welt' began to publish his musical and theatrical reviews. In February 1930, at the …