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Abraham Baer
Abraham Baer was born in Wielen, Poland. He worked as a cantor and teacher in several…
Joel Walbe
… Kinneret' near the Kinneret ( Sea of Galilee ). After two years of struggling with harsh land, lack of employment, and …
Bernardo Feuer
… Hazomir” began with twenty-four young people and in five years, it doubled its membership. On October 5th, 1942, …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel Audio Examples
… their reels to the National Sound Archives, Israel, some years after she copied them onto cassettes. Tape and item …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… of Syrian folk music in a career spanning over fifty years. He is recognized for his mastery of maqam and as a …
Mikhail Gnesin
… teacher at the State Music School . After a tenure of ten years, Gnesin traveled to Germany to help found the Jibneh …
Sholom Secunda
… against Russian Jews lasted from 1903 to 1906; during these years the Secunda family experienced acute discrimination … actors and composers outside of New York for at least three years before considering their candidacy. In 1922, Sholom … lived in the Secunda home on Penn street for the first six years of their marriage. In 1928, Betty became pregnant and …

On the move
… For ten years, Ehud Banai went around with a recording sample that …
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… a well-known torah scholar and teacher. After the first few years of Asher’s life, his family moved outside the old city … lawyer, Asher Mizrahi returned to Israel after almost forty years living abroad. He arrived in August, only a few weeks … Rabbi of Jerusalem and Rabbi Eliyahu Pardes. Today, sixty years after the first release of “Ma’adenei Melech' we still …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… interest in Arabic music that developed in Israel in later years. … Reading Esther Warkov's groundbreaking PhD thesis from the 1980s. … Ethnomusicological Research … Iraqi music … iba … …