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Moshe Taube

… he immigrated to Palestine, where he worked as a cantor in Tel- Aviv. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1957, and officiated as …

Akiva Zimmermann

… Akiva Zimmerman was born in 1936 in Tel Aviv. He attended the Shalva Gymnasium, enlisted in the Intelligence Corps. He would also serve in the military …

… (first row, third from right, with glasses) and family in Tel Aviv, 1925 From local unionist and political activist he … Institute of Jewish Music (Zimmerman 1972). In 1956, the Tel Aviv municipality bestowed upon him the Engel Prize in …

Leib Glanz

… a post as the chief cantor at the Tiferet Zevi Synagogue in Tel Aviv. Glanz was also a serious composer of Jewish … to promote a new tradition of hazzanut, Glanz founded the Tel Aviv Institute of Religious Jewish Music, and headed the …

Erich Walter Sternberg

… Erich Walter Sternberg (Berlin, 1891 – Tel-Aviv 1974, immigrated in 1932) was the first local composer …

Rita Flomenboim

… Rubin Academy of Music and Department of Musicology at the Tel Aviv University, as well as at Levinsky College Education, …

Raffi Ben-Moshe

… Iftah in the Galilee in 1949. B.A. Rubin Academy of Music, Tel-Aviv (1953). Composer, arranger and musical director of theater and cinema. M.A. thesis, Tel-Aviv University. Thesis: “The Niggun Experience in …

Yizhak Edel

… not approve of Edel's new path as a musician, but he ultimately gave in. Upon his grandfather’s death, young Edel moved … In 1929, Edel immigrated to Palestine and settled in Tel Aviv. During his first year of life in Israel, Edel …

Zecharia Plavin

… Lithuania. From 1977 in Israel, graduated from Tel Aviv University and Music Academy (piano class of Professor …

Nahum Nardi

… until July of that year, when they began performing separately. Their separation climaxed in a lawsuit filed by Nardi … his music was received with enthusiasm. In 1949 the U.S. television network NBC aired a show about the life and work … from the public eye, and lived in relative solitude in Tel Aviv, though he received attention and care from a woman who …