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Yizhak Edel
… grandfather. In his grandfather’s house, Edel received a Jewish education, but he was also exposed to music while participating in singing gatherings hosted by … where, as Edel relates, he could conduct his educational researches. Other jobs Edel held in Israel included: music …
Zecharia Plavin
… From 1977 in Israel, graduated from Tel Aviv University and Music Academy (piano class of Professor Viktor Derevianko), … Authority and - in recent years - for Lithuanian Music Archive. Many thematic duo performances with violinist … work. Expanded academic activity from 2000, with cultural research for Sapir Cultural Research Forum (Sderot) since …
Joseph Achron
… was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania . His musical genius became evident early on and at the age of … and Moses Michail Milner , he founded the Society for Jewish Folk Music . Achron's association with these … through a grant from the Leonid Nevzin Center for the Research of Russian and European Jewry. Joseph (Yussl) …
Arno Nadel
… Arno Nadel was born in Vilna, Lithuania and began his Jewish musical education in Koenigsberg under cantor Eduard … entitled, Hallelujah, for use by cantors and Jewish music researchers. In 1943, Nadel was deported to Auschwitz, where …
Naomi Shemer
… cultural consciousness through her beautiful melodies. Her musical skill was evident in her childhood, and her career … After her army service, she became well known through the musical “ Five-Five, ” essentially an arrangement of her … her death in 2004. Full biography at The Encyclopedia For Jewish Women . For list of works and publications see at …
Joseph Shlisky
… the British capital. At the turn of the 20th century, the Jewish community in Toronto grew, synagogues flourished, and … in the heart of The Ward, the city’s bustling, growing Jewish district. As a soloist in the cantor’s choir, Shlisky … a means of support. Shlisky never heard a note of Western music until his rise, but joined the Toronto Waves …
Joel Rubin
… Joel Rubin is an American clarinetist, Klezmer musician, Ethnomusicologist, and scholar of Jewish music. Since becoming involved in the Klezmer revival in the late 1970s, he has been researching, teaching, and performing Klezmer music and …
Lazare Saminsky
… In 1908 he became a founding member of the Society for Jewish Folk Music , working as its first secretary. During this period … W. 'Lazare Saminsky.' Milken Archive . … Composer, researcher & co-founder of the St. Petersburg Society for …
Shmerke Kaczerginski
… children'), and soon began organising Yung Vilne, a secular Jewish writing collective whose other members … many of his own works, and the importance of his labours to researchers and Yiddish cultural activists, his early death … for Jewish Research website ' Shmerke Kaczerginski ' in Music during the Holocaust website. Other sources: Werb, …
Richard Newman
… and received a master's degree from the Vienna Academy of Music. In 1937 he emigrated with his family to the United … In the 1950s and 1960s he conducted the choirs of the Jewish Centers in Hillcrest, Long Island, various synagogues … the music program of the Greater New York Council for Jewish Education. He is the author of numerous articles and …