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Avraham Soltes
… 3, 1917, in New York City, to parents who recently arrived from Eastern Europe. His father, Mordechai Soltes had earned a Ph.D. in education, from New York University in 1916, barely after mastering this … adolescence his other side began to emerge: in graduating from New Port High School in Elmhurst, Queens (1933), he …
Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa
… industrial production, working with diesel motors imported from Germany. He assiduously expanded his linguistic … in April 1943. By the time Stroumsa was evacuated from Auschwitz to Mauthausen, all but his two sisters were … male members of the Salonika transport. Still, in shock from the horrors he had endured, he was surprised when the …
Ghizela Suliteanu
… Romanian ethnomusicologist who collected a great deal of Ashkenazi and Sephardic folk and religious music in Romania. She researched in other fields of ethnomusicology … such as: folk music of Tatars and Turkish communities in Romania and the psychology of folk music. Sources: …
Ramon Tasat
… many styles including opera and more, but he mainly sings from the rich culture of the Sephardic Jews. He is the cantor … for New Jewish Liturgical Music. (The picture was taken from Tasat's website) P'tach Lanu Shaar, from the album Sephardic Songs for All : … Cantor, …
Moishe Teitsh
… He wrote also in journals and newspapers. Full biography from the 'Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre'. … Yiddish …
Victor Tunkel
… contains a section of rare manuscripts, including several from late 18 th century Sienna, some of the oldest notated …
Viktor Ullmann
… expanded his responsibilities to include conducting. From time to time, Zemlinsky recruited Ullman’s help for … to Terezín in an earlier transport. Ullman’s two children from his second marriage mannaged to escape to Sweden and … a time when musical and cultural activity was officially promoted by Nazi officials. As such, he was assigned to the …
Chemjo Vinaver
… music, and he toured Europe and Palestine with them. From 1926 to 1933 he worked as a conductor at the New …
Esther R. Warkov
… music and Arab-Jewish musicians in Iraq and Israel feature prominently on the JMRC website . She has also contributed … Haaretz and The Jerusalem Post. In addition to recording prominent Iraqi-Jewish musicians, Warkov interviewed …
Daniel Meir Weil
… In the field of Jewish musicology, he earned a second PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1994 ( Prof. Dalia …