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Menachem Kipnis
… from Issachar Fater's Jewish Music in Poland between the World Wars , pp. 182-189, in Zchor website. … Singer, song collector & writer … 0 … Menachem Kipnis …
Isaac Schlossberg
… Petersburg to a family of hereditary cantors. His grandfather, Nathan Schlossberg, and his father, Arie-Leib … and choirmaster Moshe Dorguzhansky, in whose choir he was a singer. His fellow practitioners were Yosef Rumshinsky , as … choir director of the Great Warsaw Synagogue. His wife, Sonya, and two daughters, Manya and Liza, were actresses of …
Naomi Shemer
… Naomi Shemer was a prolific singer and composer who built a unified Israeli cultural … skill was evident in her childhood, and her career began in the cultural department of the Nahal military youth … of Gold ,” subsequently considered the best-loved Israeli song of all time. In 1983, she was awarded the Israel Prize, …
Joseph Shlisky
… Voivodeship, Poland, around 1894. As a child, he sang in the choir of the local synagogue. A cantor from a … promised Shlisky’s parents to train their boy in liturgical song and take him on tour to London, England. Instead, the … and the Manhattan press anointed him one of the best young singers of the day. Shlisky’s star continued to rise as a …
David Beyglman
… at a young age, studying several instruments, chiefly the clarinet and the violin. In 1912, he became the director … harsh conditions of life in the Lodz Ghetto. The Yiddish singer-songwriter took the place of the badhan (wedding …
Max Helfman
… American Jewish composer, choral conductor, pianist, singer, and educator. He had a long career arranging both … Di naye hagode (1948), a Yiddish-language Cantata about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He directed many choirs and … … Composer, choral conductor & educator … Yiddish songs … Communism … Socialism … Jewish socialists … …
Emanuel Zamir
… Emanuel Zamir was a unique figure in the field of Hebrew Folksong (Zemer Ivri). He was born in … the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. There he created groups of singers and players, and founded a small orchestra, that was …
Mordekhai Zeira
… musical education consisted mostly of a handful of piano lessons, which he received as a reward for listening quietly to … classical music in both Operas that he went to with his mother, and through his sister's playing. He was also exposed … full, and the crowd sang the songs together with a female singer whose name I do not remember. At my right sat a young …
Yosef Hadar
… was born in Tel Aviv in 1926 to a musical family. His mother Yafa and his father Yehiel were both members of the … Apart from his studies at school, Hadar took private lessons with Mordechai Seter , Paul Ben-Haim and Israeli … of the Hed-Arzi record company. These recordings included singers Miriam Avigal, Dalya Amihud, Miryam Props, and Tova …
Aleksander Kulisiewicz
… A talented singer, songwriter and performer who composed 54 songs during more than five years of imprisonment … is also noteworthy for having created and preserved the largest collection in existence of music composed in the …