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Eliezer S. Abinun
… book suspended from the ceiling of its former main Sephardi synagogue, now a museum. Both Hebrew and Ladino were spoken …
Isaac Offenbach
… Jacques Offenbach . Offenbach was a noted composer of synagogue and secular music. The majority of his musical … of cantorial compositions and transcriptions of traditional synagogue melodies. His manuscripts were donated to The …
Jacques Offenbach
… and both boys earned their keep by singing in a local synagogue choir. Due to financial difficulties, Jacques was …
Jan Peerce
… life, making regular appearances as a guest cantor in local synagogues and in cantorial concerts. Peerce also made …
David Roitman
… in New York, officiating as a cantor at the Sha'arey Tzedek Synagogue from 1924 until his death. As a cantor, he had a …
Isaac Schlossberg
… tenor) and Edelman (later cantor in one of the Viennese synagogues). At the age of 13, Schlossberg became an … first time conducted the Grand Choir of the Vilna Choral Synagogue. Later he entered the Warsaw Conservatory. In … he was for a short time choir director of the Great Warsaw Synagogue. His wife, Sonya, and two daughters, Manya and …
Edward Stark
… he was offered a position at Emanu-El, the largest Reform Synagogue in San Francisco . Emanu-El was one of the first synagogues to use the Union Prayer Book, and as such, Stark … to introduce instruments, aside from the organ, into the synagogue service. Only two of his works for choir and …
Joseph Shlisky
… around 1894. As a child, he sang in the choir of the local synagogue. A cantor from a neighboring village heard the … of the 20th century, the Jewish community in Toronto grew, synagogues flourished, and hazzanut began to prosper as an art. Like elsewhere in North America, Toronto synagogues looked to Eastern Europe to recruit a cantor and …
David Putterman
… various famous composers to compose music for the synagogue. A collection of his compositions was published in …
Isadore Freed
… Israel he began to experiment with composing music for the synagogue. In 1939 he published his first liturgical work, … the Jewish modes as they have been treated by a variety of synagogue composers (e.g. Hirsch Weintraub , Abraham W. … subtle difference inherent in the Jewish treatment of the synagogue mode. He believed that the synagogue mode, unlike …