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Ezra Fleischer
Professor Ezra Fleischer (1928-2006), Israel Prize Laureate for Hebrew Literature (…
Shmerke Kaczerginski
Born in Vilna to a poor family and educated at that city’s Talmud Torah, Shmerke…
Alfred Sendrey
Musician, conductor and musicologist Alfred Sendrey was born in 1884 in Budapest,…
Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
Portrayed by Readers' Digest as 'a top ranking composer;' in Christian…
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… the baqqashot piyyutim . The texts were written by various poets, beginning in the 19 th century, and composition of …
Nahum Heiman
Natan Yonatan, Nahum Heiman's friend and writing partner says about his friend (in the…
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Al-Andalus, and stems from the adoption by Iberian Hebrew poets of the Arabic system of scansion. One of the masters … is a poem by one of medieval Spain’s most distinguished poets, “She’eh ne’esar” appears more infrequently in …