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Nissan Spivak
… and Jacob Beimel . Spivak is considered as a genius in Jewish music, and many of his compositions became famous … Judaica; Nulman, Macy. Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music. See also ' Nissan Spivak' at the National … … Cantorate … Cantor … Educator … Education … Ashkenazi … Prayer … Improvisation … Nissan Spivak …
Haim Effendi
… Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old traditional Ottoman Jewish community ruled by rabbinical authority was shattered … French), to liberal trends in Judaism (especially to Jewish nationalism or Zionism) and to subversive political … police officers found Haim Effendi covered with a talit (prayer shawl) and ready for the meal preceding the fast. …
Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Friedman
… Deborah Lynn Friedman was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. Friedman’s compositional … worshippers were seeking more accessible, communal modes of prayer. Friedman’s early compositions were designed to be …
Yinam Leef
… include classical music, jazz, and the unique mixture of Jewish prayers, the chant of the Moazzin and the Old City's church …
David Menahem
… Orchestra. He also composed a melody for the Kaddish prayer performed by David Daor. He composed songs from …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… 17, 1859. His father, Rabbi Eliyahu Navon, was one of the Jewish intellectuals and public figures in Adrianpole, a … urban centers of the Ottoman Empire in the 1860s: Haskalah (Jewish enlightenment) and Jewish nationalism. Educated Jews … Navon also published Ladino translations of piyyutim and prayers. The goal of these translations was to bring these …
Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin (Maharil)
… urging them to institute a general season of fasting and prayer. The German communities, obeying the call, fasted for … 'Bi'urim' to Yoreh De'ah, is extant in manuscript. Source: Jewish Encyclopedia. … Rabbi and teacher of Mayence, cantor …
Israel Alter
… of the School of Sacred Music at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, where he had an enormous … 1961 and 1971, Alter wrote and published the complete prayers for Shabbat, the High Holidays, festivals, and … (where a melody in a specific word is borrowed from another prayer, thereby "referencing" it). Additional bibliography …
Abraham Wolf Binder
… of cantors and into a world enriched by synagogue music and Jewish folklore. He was a member of his father’s synagogue … developed his knowledge and love of nusach ha’tfillah (prayer melodies). He continued his involvement in Jewish choral music, forming the Hadassah Choral Union in …
Abraham Baer
… and Samuel Naumbourg , covering the liturgy of the entire Jewish calendar year. This major anthology by Baer, cantor … until his death), a minor corner of the German-speaking Jewish world by all accounts, had everlasting effects. Four … about the life of Baer, see Hammarlund, Anders. A Prayer for Modernity: Politics and Culture in the World of …