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Nahum Heiman
… says that the families of Heiman, Asaf and Yedoton were the musicians of the first and second temple.' Nahum Heiman …
Leonard Bernstein
… conductor and composer. Born in Lawerence, Mass. Diverse musician and was well known in the U.S. and abroad in many …
Uzi Hitman
… visits to Israel. In addition, he composed many lyrics for musicians in the Mizrahi music genre, wrote children's songs …
Harry Von Tilzer
… an up-and-coming lyricist named Andrew B. Sterling. The two musicians became good friends and roomed together in a small …
Dave Tarras
… to New York in 1921. He was one of the most famous Klezmer musicians of the 20th century. Additional biography, at … … Klezmer clarinetist … Clarinet … Clarinetist … Klezmer … Musician … Dave Tarras …
Joel Walbe
… Aviv. While living in Tel Aviv, Walbe decided to become a musician. His first musical endeavors involved organizing … with Birbis, Walbe continued to study with famous Israeli musicians, such as the composer Erich Walter Sternberg , who …
Mickey Katz
… Meyer Myron 'Mickey' Katz was an American musician and comedian who specialized in Jewish humor. Katz … klezmer music as well. Although he was primarily a jazz musician, all of his parodies have a distinct klezmer … Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, and Brisses . Katz played with many musicians throughout the years like Ray Musiker and more. …
Joseph Moskowitz
… century. He was a descendant of a family of klezmer musicians and was among the most well-known American …
Haim Effendi
… In spite of his unparalleled fame as a singer and musician during his lifetime, very few details about the … folk narrative type (AT 922*C I-B [IFA]) in which a Jewish musician is forced to play or sing before the local ruler … pays him a large sum of money or appoints him as his chief musician. In most versions of this folk tale, the hero is an …
Al-Mansur Al-Yahudi
… Court musician. Al-Mansur Al-Yahudi was court musician for the Umayyad Caliph Al-Hakam I in Cordoba, Spain … suggests that he was instrumental in bringing the famous musician Ziryab to Cordoba in 822, thus helping to initiate …