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Marc Lavry
… metrical phrases and duple meter characteristic of the traditional folk dance. His Opera, Dan ha’shomer (1945) was …
Pinhas Minkowski
… officiated as a cantor. Minkowski studied the cantorial tradition with his father, and supplemented his basic …
Sholom Secunda
… age prevented him from officiating High Holiday Services in traditional synagogues, he was contracted to lead services …
Mordekhai Seter
… or motives derived from Mizrahi (Jewish Near-Eastern) traditions. Unlike most composers of that time, however, he …
Yehuda Sharett (Shertok)
… which he won the Engel prize ) , a piece combining Jewish tradition with modern musical elements. Also known for …
Gershon Sirota
… smaller local synagogues. Sirota took advantage of the rich tradition of hazzanut in Odessa . He attended services at …
Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)
… Ushitsa, Ukraine. As a child, Weisser was exposed to the tradition of Hassidic melodies and Hebrew zemirot through …
Mordekhai Hershman
… Renanah Music, 1925) is based, among other motifs, on the traditional Haftarah cantillation. Hershman recorded this …
Israel Meyer Japhet
… correct cantillation of the Bible according to the German tradition. The most known and widely used of these texts …
Eliezer S. Abinun
… on both the liturgical music and the secular Romancero tradition of the Sephardim. While a young man, he had a …