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The Jewish Bloch
… stylistically related several compositions of Bloch's first years in the USA (e.g. the Viola Suite, both Sonatas for … The European concert agenda of the last pre-First World War years constituted an international elite metropolitan … himself as the paradigmatic Jewish composer. For a few years he was celebrated as the only composer who expressed …
Pastukhel (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… impact on Binder’s personal commitment to Zionism. Only two years after beginning his work with Wise, Binder travelled … virtually every Zionist songbook in America well into the 1960s. It appears in Youth Movement songbooks (such as “The … used to perform it at our shule assembly for Rosh Hashanah. Years later, as a teenager, I notated the song as best I …
A Song of Dawn
… been performed in Jerusalem over the past hundred and fifty years. The Jewish Music Research Centre extends heart-felt …
Israel Alter
… 1925, he moved to Hanover , where he remained for about ten years and served as the last Chief Cantor before the …
The Western Sephardi Liturgical Tradition as Sung by Abraham Lopes Cardoso
… the Portuguese community of Suriname and then more than 40 years as Hazzan of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of … CD combines recordings carried out over a span of almost 50 years, and attempts to sample the various layers of the …
Marcus Hast
Born in Praga (near Warsaw). After serving as a cantor in Poland and Germany, he moved…
The Mesopotamian Theory of Music and the Ugarit Notation — a Reexamination
… of music has already been going on for more than fifteen years. In 1960 Anne Kilmer published two lists of so-called …
Herman Svet
… spring of 1922, he left Kishinev for Berlin, which in those years was a city of refuge for many Jewish intellectuals who … dziennik (New daily) in Cracow; among others. Over the years 1933-1935, he lived in Paris, where he continued … for Palestine Post and Haolam (The world). For seven years he was chairman of the journalists’ association in …
Moshe Attias
… books to memory – a dramatic turnaround from his earlier years when he could only remember parts of songs – that … can be actually seen in his portraits as a typical 1960s cosmopolitan young hipster, without head cover in …