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Neil Levin
… of focus embrace comparative considerations of eastern and western spheres of Ashkenazi Jewry in terms of their sacred, …
Elio Piattelli
Biography by Pasquale Troia
Choirmaster of the Tempio Maggiore (Great Synagogue) in…
Nahum Heiman
… was given to the conductor of the singing group of the west Galilee who looked for complex rhythms. The song was …
Jo Amar
… contemporary Israeli culture, opposing the trend of turning Western music into the defining Israeli music style. …
Harry Kandel
… Great Lafayette Band, then appeared on Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. He moved to Philadelphia in 1913 and played in …
Avram Moyshe Kholodenko
… was a Klezmer bandleader from Berdichev (Ukranian city southwest of Kiev). In the last decade, Kholodenko's …
Haim Effendi
… a wool business) was born in Edirne (formerly Adrianople in Western Thrace, today Turkey) in 1853. He spent most of his … by modernizing trends characterized by an exposure to Western culture (most particularly French), to liberal …
Jacob Bachman
… these performances with Rubinstein, who was considered the 'westerner of Russian music,'* Bachmann choose a career in … in these pieces was influenced by Rubinstein and employed western musical devices. In his memoirs, Cantor Pinchas …
Alexander Uria Boscovich
… preached for a distinct local style that would synthesize Western tradition with Mediterranean and specifically …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… born in Starokostyantyniv (Alt-Kostantin, about 175 miles west of Kiev). He was apprenticed at the age of nine to an … associated with the Jewish community of Dubno (today in western Ukraine), but although he officially served there as …