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Arik Einstein
… born in Tel-Aviv, Israel. He is considered as one of the greatest Israeli singers. He recorded about 500 songs and 34 …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… of short cantorial biographies that Salomon was “the greatest cantor of his time” and “is acclaimed among cantors … Idelsohn (1929: 266-267) reports that Salomon had “the greatest voice of his time. His coloratura... was inimitable … a man of profound religious devotion and piety, and of a great knowledge of Hebrew literature…. His ...performance …
Rahamim Amar
… in Jerusalem, and their graduates are considered great cantors and musicians. One of them is Itzik Kala. Great musicians defined Amar as "the greatest musician and creator in the last century of the …
Marcus Hast
… of Hast's birth.) Hast served as the chief cantor of the Great Synagogue, Duke's Place, London , from 1871 … a nice portrait of Hast in middle age in the section on the Great Synagogue in Peter Renton's book The Lost Synagogues …
Salah El Kuweiti
… he was 17. He played violin, sang, composed, and achieved great musical fame in Iraq together with his brother, Daoud, … his own arrangements of the music of his grandfather and great-uncle (2011). Selected Recordings: Maqam Rast for …
Pnina Salzman
… genius. She can already today be counted as one of the five greatest pianists of our time, and surely as the very best, … in Paris in the mid-1930's. Salzman: “Seter reaches the great truth, pure spirituality. His music has no body, only …
David Menahem
… Rabbi Gurje Yair, was an educator and one of the greatest cantors of Iraq. As a child, he grew up in … many piyyutim from Alep. His melodies were performed by the great Sepharad cantors, including Moshe Havusha, Zion …
Zalman Polak
… riots in Jerusalem. 1921: Invited to serve as cantor in The Great Synagogue, (Beit ha-Knesset ha-Gadol) of Rishon …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… Turkish musical traditions to Eretz-Yisrael and that he had great influence on the formation of the Hebrew folksong …
Boruch Leib Rosowsky
… Born in Naliboki, Vilna, served as cantor in the Great Synagogue of Riga and was a very popular cantor of his …