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Leib Glanz
… gestures from many different genres, including romantic music, Israeli folk songs, and Jewish liturgical music from communities throughout the Diaspora. While … of hazzanut, Glanz founded the Tel Aviv Institute of Religious Jewish Music, and headed the Cantorial Academy. … …
Samuel Naumbourg
… professional hazzanim in his family. He received his formal musical education in Munich where he was recruited to sing … and was subsequently hired as a professor of liturgical music at the Séminaire Israélite. With the support of … giving an unprecedented overview of the history of religious Jewish music. Another of Naumbourg’s important …
Naomi Cohn-Zentner
… Cohn Zentner is an assistant professor in the Department of Music at Bar Ilan University. She was formerly the head of the M.A. program in Jewish music at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies. Her … Sabbath table songs ( zemiroth shabbat ) among Ashkenazi religious-Zionists in Israel. She was a postdoctoral fellow …
Nahum Nardi
… Nahum Nardi was born Nahum Narodietzky in 1901 to a religious-Zionist family in Kiev, Ukraine. He was named … he studied at the Warsaw Conservatory and at the Vienna Music Academy, graduating in 1922. Following his graduation, … performing, combining his classical repertoire with folk music, such as Russian folksongs, Hassidic music and Hebrew …
Mordekhai Hershman
… El Temple, he continued to appear in concerts of classical music, record commercial records and tour throughout … sold, showing the porous line separating secular from the religious musical practices led by great cantors of the time such as …
Morton Shanok
… discharged from the army, he attended Manhattan School of Music and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Music. Shanok was one of a group of cantors who established … Cantor at Temple B’nai Abraham in Beverly and then became Religious Cultural Co-Ordinator at the Jewish Rehabilitation …
Max Helfman
… educator. He had a long career arranging both secular and religious Jewish music and was considered to have a gift for writing music … seventeen years; his influence is most strongly felt on the religious music of Reform Judaism. He was also well known …
Uzi Hitman
… seminary with Cantor Moshe Koussevitzky and followed a religious lifestyle, whereas his mother was secular. … to Hitman, his father had a great influence on his musical path, and he used to play recordings of his father's … whenever he had visitors. In addition to the cantorial music played in his childhood home, Hitman’s parents …
Moshe Nathanson
… age 10, Nathanson attended a traditional heder (all-boys religious school) in the old city of Jerusalem. Moshe left … Nathanson immigrated to Canada, where he studied Law and Music at McGill University. Mid-degree, Nathanson decided to transfer to the Institute of Musical Art in New York (now the Julliard School of Music). …
Zalman Zylbercweig
… to Lodz with his family, where he enrolled in a modern religious Jewish school. Zylbercweig continued his secondary … articles, adaptations of novels, and reviews of books, music, and Yiddish theater. In 1922, Zylbercweig began to …