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Sharon Bernstein

… to bring these traditions into contemporary North American synagogue life. As a composer, she has written music for …

… theater, and—perhaps most enduringly—the liturgy of the synagogue. While I believe these external environmental … of a liberating experience to open up beyond the Shul [synagogue] and beyond the narrow alley. We became creatures … Rossi , arguably the only one who composed songs for the synagogue at that time. Many Jewish musicians could also be …

Ale Bolshevikn

… a Communist who gives to the Jewish National Fund. 13) A synagogue sexton with a high school diploma, a Jewish …

One of the "Persian Letters" of Edith Gershon-Kiwi

Edith Gerson-Kiwi in Tehran (1961): Documents from a Revealing Journey

… her own fame, describing how she was honored in one of the synagogues in Tehran by being called down from the women’s … Meir Hai Uzziel (1880–1953) as cantor of the Great Sephardi Synagogue Ohel Moed in Tel Aviv and as director of the … at the Agudath Tze’irei Paras (Persian Youths’ Association) Synagogue during the Days of Awe, on October 2, 1954. Yet, …

"Evolution of Jewish Music": Discourse Communities and Narrative Construction in the Performance of Music History

… can be read as a stand-in for the eastern European synagogue music that predated him. While this representation … Rosenblatt—depicted here by Friedman dressed in cantorial synagogue garb—grounds the history in a synagogue music style that hearkens back to Europe. The …