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Morris Rosenfeld
… in Suwałki County, part of Russian Poland. Morris came from a family of fishermen. He was educated at Boksha, … to English and were published in 1898 in the book ' Songs from the Ghetto '. The first edition sold out, and the book … poems shed light on the living circumstances of emigrants from Eastern Europe in New York's tailoring workshops. His …
Walter Salmen
… turn after the French Revolution is misunderstood. From 2004 to 2009 he edited the “ Yearbook Music in …
Jakob Schönberg
… Yisrael (1935), an important collection of Hebrew songs from the pre-state Jewish communities in the Land of Israel. …
Milan Slavicky
… was a Czech composer, musicologist, and pedagogue. He came from a musical family. His father Klement Slavický and both … of the 20th century. He has written two books, Interviews from the House of Artists (1990) and Gideon Klein: a Fragment …
David Aaron de Sola
… David Aaron De Sola was descended from a distinguished family of Sephardim, who emigrated from Spain in 1492 and the family have settled mainly in … a course of nine years received his rabbinical diploma from Haham d'Azevdo of Amsterdam. In 1818, D.A. de Sola was …
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 …