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Avraham Soltes
… in 1938. At CCNY began the interest which encompasses his life: Judica; the struggle in Palestine to forge an Israel; … Academy, for a period longer than that spent by any religious leader in such service, his presence was also an …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… a significant activist in the Hapoel Hamizrachi movement, a religious socialist party within the Zionist movement. A … De-Lita in Yiddish). However, Geshuri’s life, as those of many young yeshiva students, took a turn … the liberal “Haaretz” and “Hatzofe,” the daily newspaper of religious Zionist movement in British Palestine. Overall, …
Nahum Nardi
… Nahum Nardi was born Nahum Narodietzky in 1901 to a religious-Zionist family in Kiev, Ukraine. He was named … 1949 the U.S. television network NBC aired a show about the life and work of Nardi. During the same year, Nardi composed … and Albert Einstein. During the last years of his life, Nardi disappeared from the public eye, and lived in …
Mordekhai Hershman
… sold, showing the porous line separating secular from the religious musical practices led by great cantors of the time … following video clip includes many visuals of Hershman’s life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF_qcsZXuZQ Online … Vilna was one of the most flourishing centers of Jewish life, at this time, this post Rishon at the main Synagogue …
Morton Shanok
… School and the College of Jewish Music in New York for his life-long contribution to the cantorial profession. His … Cantor at Temple B’nai Abraham in Beverly and then became Religious Cultural Co-Ordinator at the Jewish Rehabilitation …
Uzi Hitman
… they moved to Ramat Gan, where he lived for the rest of his life. His parents were survivors of the Bergen Belzen … seminary with Cantor Moshe Koussevitzky and followed a religious lifestyle, whereas his mother was secular. According to …
Haim Effendi
… his unparalleled fame as a singer and musician during his lifetime, very few details about the life of Haim Effendi … educated in one of the most important centers of Sephardi religious music, Edirne, where a local Jewish choir called … Arabic; and modern Hebrew, along with his command of the religious Hebrew repertoire. In spite of the meager …
Abraham Ber Birnbaum
… eventually allowed it on the condition that he keep up his religious studies. When the family moved to Lodz, Birnbaum … poems (including Japanese poems). In the last years of his life, Birnbaum tried to establish another newspaper, but the …
Shlomo Carlebach
… is considered by many to be the foremost Jewish religious songwriter. He recorded over 25 albums, composed … here . Full biography: Brandwein, M. Reb Shlomele: the life and world of Shlomo Carlebach. Jerusalem : M. H. …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… an itinerant Eastern European cantor, and maintained this lifestyle throughout nearly all of his career. He is most … by instruments. He was, at the same time, a man of profound religious devotion and piety, and of a great knowledge of … and transcriptions). A three-year research project on the life and music of Cantor Salomon is now in progress at the …