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Two Spanish-Portuguese ‘Cantorial Fantasias’ from Hamburg (1838)
… … 1994 … Hamburg … Spanish … Cantor … Fantasias … Portuguese … Edwin Seroussi … Two Spanish-Portuguese ‘Cantorial Fantasias’ from Hamburg (1838) …
The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Late Manifestation of the Musical Trope
Western Ashkenazi cantors have developed a new soloist style of liturgically important…
The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
… about 1885 and 1900. The most outstanding Cantorial Fantasias became widely known, were performed by many …
The Cantorial Fantasia Revisited: New Perspectives on an Ashkenazic Musical Genre
Based on MS sources of Maier Levi of Esslingen, Germany (1813–1874), the article…
Nahum Nardi
Nahum Nardi was born Nahum Narodietzky in 1901 to a religious-Zionist family in Kiev,…
Brakha Tzefira
Brakha Tzefira was born in Jerusalem in 1910. Her father emmigrated from Yemen in 1887,…
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
The passing of the founder of the Yiddish theater spawned a touching emotional response…
Pnina Salzman
“The first lady of the piano in Israel,' and, 'She is considered the first Israel-born…
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
Idelsohn was born in Filsberg, Latvia (former Kurland or Courland) and began his…