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Yitzchak Eshel (Friedlander)
… Pittsburg (USA) and more. Toured in concerts around the world and taught many young cantors. Recorded albums of cantorial music and Yiddish songs, wrote articles about Jewish music, and composed original pieces. Source: Encyclopedia …
Tsippi Fleischer
… Fleischer’s (b. Haifa, 1946) formal education encompasses music, musicology, and Semitic languages – all reflected in her … to a similar tenor in Israeli popular music and so-called world music. Amalgamated with influences of Israeli folk and …
Joseph Michael Gusikow
… Musician. Born in Shklov , Belorussia to a fam il y of … Guzikow archive, click here . (Above link: Rainlore's World of Music website. An illustration of his instrument, … on the right.) Sources: Encyclopedia Judaica Rainlore's World of Music Website . Biography, Jewish Encyclopedia. …
Pnina Salzman
… in Tel Aviv. In 1929, during his tour in Palestine, the world-renowned French pianist Alfred Cortot (1877–1962) … feat which she would repeat during her career. During World War II, she regularly performed, as did the PO, in … But I fancy an innate sensibility and vitality of musical mind and feeling will preserve her from all that.” ( …
Ronit Seter
… Dr. Ronit Seter studies twentieth-century music and specializes in Israeli art music. She served on the faculties of Peabody Conservatory, … Society, International Conference on Music Since 1900, World Congress for Jewish Studies, and Israel Musicological …
Ezra Aharon ("Azuri")
… ‘ud player, singer, conductor, and performer of Arab art music. He was student of Tanburi Ibrahim Bey in Iraq and was … by Ronit Seter and Esther Warkov. More biographies: The World Online Encyclopedia Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World Zemereshet (Hebrew) In this 45-minute sound …
David Menahem
… Moshe Havusha , taught him the secrets of the Arab Maqam musical system and Arabic musical instruments. Since childhood, along with pursuing … Levy. Rabbi Menachem is presently active in promoting the world of Piyyut and Middle Eastern music in Israel. He takes …
Moshe Rudinow
… due to being drafted to the army in 1915 and fighting in World War I. While in the conservatory, he met his … Russian songs into Hebrew and Yiddish, and performed the music of Jewish composers such as Engel , Saminsky , and …
Herman Svet
… Yehudith Wahl, from Berlin. In 1917 he began writing about music for various Russian-language periodicals in Kiev and … for a variety of newspapers and journals throughout the world, like Haaretz. He was also a special correspondent for … addition, he wrote for Palestine Post and Haolam (The world). For seven years he was chairman of the journalists’ …
Joseph Papernikoff
… Thanks to his voice, a beautiful alto voice, and his musical hearing, he was accepted at the age of 8 to the … participated in concerts and recordings. During the First World War, he ended up in Lithuania, occupied by the … Warsaw: In Zunikn Land ('In the Sunny Land,' 1927). Until World War II, eight poetry collections by him were published …