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Hans Krása
Hans Krása, composer, born November 30, 1899 in Prague. Krása began taking piano…
Herman Svet
Gershon (Herman) Svet was born January 1, 1893, in Shpole (Kiev province of the…
Nahum Nardi
Nahum Nardi was born Nahum Narodietzky in 1901 to a religious-Zionist family in Kiev,…
Gideon Klein
Gideon Klein, pianist and composer, born December 6, 1919, in Přerov (Moravia). At the…
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… the first Jewish organist of the nineteenth-century German Reform movement, who advanced the new ritual of the Hamburg … were sung in different modes, but after the Counter Reformation chanting the Lamentations in the “sixth mode” …
David Nowakowsky
David Nowakowsky was born in Malin, Russia near Kiev. Nowakowsky left home at an early…
Polka
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
The Western Sephardi Liturgical Tradition as Sung by Abraham Lopes Cardoso
… Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue Music in Nineteenth-century Reform Sources from Hamburg: Ancient Tradition in the Dawn …
Mazurka (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…