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Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… throughout Eastern Europe. Because of the exceptional musical and emotional power of his singing, he attained a … his virtuosity won him the support and admiration of Russian government officials. His audience extended across … as Riga and Budapest, but also crossed the border from the Russian Empire into Prussian territory. He was even offered …
Yitzhak Graziani
… Yitzhak Graziani was born in Russe , Bulgaria . His musical path began in grade-school, as he participated in … in labor camps. After the liberation of Bulgaria by the Russian Red Army in 1944, Graziani married a woman named Dora, and enrolled in the Academy of Music in Sofia . In 1948, Graziani immigrated with his …
Jascha Nemtsov
… up in Saint Petersburg where he graduated from a special music school and was awarded a gold medal. He then continued his musical education at the Saint Petersburg State … century up to the 21st century with special emphasis on Russian music. In addition, he has performed several concert …
Verdina Shlonsky
… symphonic works, a piano concerto, a cantata, chamber music, music for the theater, and many songs (Lieder and popular). … only to Stutschewsky and Boskovich of her generation), in Russian, German, English and Hebrew. She is also the sister …
Moshe Rudinow
… of Odessa and Kherson. While working there, he translated Russian songs into Hebrew and Yiddish, and performed the music of Jewish composers such as Engel , Saminsky , and …
Max Weinreich
… Max Weinreich was a Russian Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics …
Herman Svet
… was born January 1, 1893, in Shpole (Kiev province of the Russian Empire, now Ukraine). His father, Menachem Mendel … Yehudith Wahl, from Berlin. In 1917 he began writing about music for various Russian-language periodicals in Kiev and later switched to …
Joseph Papernikoff
… was born in the late 1990s (1897 or 1899) in the Russian city of Warsaw, Poland. He was the son of Malka nee … education in the 'cheder', and then studied in a Russian Real Gymnasium. Thanks to his voice, a beautiful alto voice, and his musical hearing, he was accepted at the age of 8 to the …
Israel Adler
… the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études and at the Institut de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and musical studies. During his thirteen-year sojourn in Paris … was directed during the Soviet period by the distinguished Russian Jewish musicologist Moise Beregovski. Located at the …
Yehezkiel Braun
… in Israel , is most known for his often-performed choral music. A 2001 Israel Prize laureate, he is probably the most … composer, with over 120 works published by the Israel Music Institute. His feeling for modality in harmony and … but also some Ashkenazi ones and Israeli folklore (Russian-French influenced) – which he compared with …