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Meir Shimon Geshuri
… the Tzaddik Rabbi Haim-Shmuel Halevy Horwitz of Khantchin near Kielce, grandson of the Seer of Lublin, who was Rabbi … a h eder (elementary school), Geshuri was sent to study in nearby Niwka, and later on attended the Yeshiva in Brest, on … literature. He moved to Berlin, the rapidly growing hub for Eastern European Jews seeking modern education, studied at a …
Gershom Sizomu
… Ugandan rabbi serving the Abayudaya, a Baganda community in eastern Uganda near the town of Mbale who practice Judaism. In 2007 he …
Albert Elias
… JMRC publication Taqasim: Instrumental Improvisations in Near Eastern Tradition . ( Listen here ) Elias play Iraqi style . …
Joseph Achron
… as a concert violinist throughout Europe and the Near East , finally settling in New York in 1925. There, he …
Mordekhai Seter
… based on tunes or motives derived from Mizrahi (Jewish Near-Eastern) traditions. Unlike most composers of that time, …
David Zehavi
… and Yom Tov's hymns from my father, and the sounds of the East that came from the Arab cafes near our house.' His father hoped he would be a cantor. …
Boris Thomashefsky
… Pincas Thomashefsky, was born in Tarasche, a small town near Kiev, Ukraine in 1868. He immigrated to the United … Thomashefsky joined a Synagogue chorister on the Lower East Side, which brought him in contact with Synagogue … became a partner at the People’s Theater on the Lower East Side along with famed actor and producer Jacob P. …
Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… the Jewish question.” Their holy remains were buried in the nearby Rzuzowski Forrest in ditches they were forced to dig … in Encyclopedia Judaica (Jerusalem ), Who's Who in the East (U.S.A.), Who's Who in Israel, Who's Who in ASCAP, …
Elio Piattelli
… Milan, Florence, Naples ...) and France (Sénanque abbey near Avignon, Saint-Louis in Paris, Strasbourg). The … documented in his personal library. One can distinguish at least four specific areas of activity by Piatelli during his … style, their melodic 'flavor', in their simplicity and linearity (which facilitates and favors everyone’s singing) …
Nahum Heiman
… when he was seventeen. He took up the accordion due to his nearly paralyzed hand. In time, he recovered from his hand … song in the same rhythm, Ufi Yona , this time to the Eastern Singing Festival. One of Hayman's most famous songs …