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Yaakov Huri
… a child prodigy. By 1931, when he was only seventeen years old, he was already ordained as rabbi. Huri belonged … open a clothes’ store in the Mea Shearim quarter. Over the years, he received lucrative job offers to officiate as … sought Huri's services in other areas and over the years he received many offers. For example, the Hevra …
Jerome Kern
… musical to be adopted by an opera company. In the coming years, Kern wrote music for several popular shows including …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… Levin for his gracious additions to the notes he wrote many years ago for the Milken Archive companion. My thanks go … with tears in their eyes.” As early as 1914, twenty-two years after Edlestadt died, Reyzen’s younger brother and … their shared career in New York). Heifetz was for many years director of the Farband Culture Chorus and the music …

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 …
Zecharia Plavin
… for Israeli Broadcasting Authority and - in recent years - for Lithuanian Music Archive. Many thematic duo …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… Month to this text, that was already featured is previous years, in order to analyze two new recordings, one Moroccan … early 1950s. In this recording, which can be dated to the 1980s, Shofet kol ha’aretz is taken out of its original …
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 … used to perform it at our shule assembly for Rosh Hashanah. Years later, as a teenager, I notated the song as best I could. Somewhere I may have that original notation. Some years after that, I asked Molly where she had learned it, …
Noam Sheriff
Noam Sheriff (b. Tel-Aviv, 1935-2018), composer, conductor and lecturer. Sheriff is the…