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Nahum Heiman
… 'The name Nahche sings in the ears of thousands of Israeli singing fans. The Israeli folk song (Zemer Ivri) is the soul … many movies and television series, and guided choirs and singing groups. Heiman was born in Riga, Latvia on May 6, … subscribed to the Academy of Cinema. There he worked in the Jewish Agency. After a few years, Heiman met with a Swiss …
Ehud Manor
… frivolity, and he has represented us with great respect in singing competitions abroad. Author of ' Yemey Binyamina ' … and his writing. His mother had a beautiful voice and was singing constantly, and his father would speak to him in …
Uzi Hitman
… path, and he used to play recordings of his father's singing whenever he had visitors. In addition to the …
Leon Blank
… was just a boy, his family moved to Romania, where he began singing in a local Synagogue choir. Even from an early age, …
Joel Walbe
… Ukraine ). As a boy, his education was standard for wealthy Jewish families in Russia. He first studied Torah in the … teachers. Shalom Walbe, Joel's father, was a wealthy Jewish merchant and a Gabbai. He kept a secluded Jewish … Quellen: ein Beitrag zur hebräischen Musikologie (The Singing of Israel and its Sources: a Contribution to Hebrew …
Isa Kremer
… by Judith Pinnolis. Additional biography available at the Jewish Women's Archive. Recordings of Isa Kremer singing, 'Ven ich volt gehat dem keysers oytseres,' … regarding this song can be found here through the An-sky Jewish Folklore Research Project. … Yiddish theater actress …
Frida Zibel-Goldstein
… 1877 in Lemberg, Galicia. At the age of thirteen she began singing in the chorus of the Lemberg Polish Opera, where she …
Abraham Ber Birnbaum
… turned to a music career at a young age; he began by singing in the synagogue choir of the local cantor Leizerke, … he learned general music theory, but continued to sing in a Jewish choir. In Lodz, Birnbaum studied to become a shohet … a cantors’ union in Poland; publishing articles on Jewish music in 'Hazfirah' and 'Haolam' newspapers; and …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… all of his career. He is most closely associated with the Jewish community of Dubno (today in western Ukraine), but … assistant singers (m’shor’rim) to sing and lead services in Jewish communities throughout Eastern Europe. Because of the exceptional musical and emotional power of his singing, he attained a degree of fame and stardom comparable …
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 … the 1960's, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer camps. Jewish youth first …