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Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… of the exceptional musical and emotional power of his singing, he attained a degree of fame and stardom comparable … religious devotion and piety, and of a great knowledge of Hebrew literature…. His ...performance was overwhelming, and … biography of Salomon, published in ten installments in the Hebrew newspaper Ha-maggid in 1875. Its appearance …
Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Friedman
… the 1960's, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer camps. Jewish youth first … Friedman’s compositional corpus includes music for the Hebrew liturgy, English translations and interpretations of …
Israel Goldfarb
… three cantorial schools: the School of Sacred Music at the Hebrew Union College, the Cantors Institute at the JTSA, and … Goldfarb worked to create songs adapted to congregational singing, which were requested by the youth, especially by … Together they published songsters suited for communal singing and for use in schools. In their work, they tried to …
Moshe Rudinow
… War I. While in the conservatory, he met his wife-to-be and singing companion, Ruth Leviash. Following his studies, … While working there, he translated Russian songs into Hebrew and Yiddish, and performed the music of Jewish …
Nathan Shahar
… Natan Shachar began his academic studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he studied economics … where he completed his BA. and MA. He did his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, about Hebrew singing. This field remained his area of expertise, on …
Yehiel 'Adaki
… as an embroiderer. As a child, 'Adaki studied Torah and Hebrew. When he was nine, his father died, and his mother … events happening throughout. The singers used to build a singing program for each event and party. 'Adaki got to know … wa ya rabb-ljalali', which is part in Arabic and part in Hebrew (…) They had nice voices. After three verses of the …
Israel Alter
… He studied music in Vienna with cantors and teachers of singing and composition, including Cantor Yehuda Leib Miller … South Africa, where he served as the cantor of the United Hebrew Congregation until his retirement in 1960. He … and joined the faculty of the School of Sacred Music at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, where he …
Avner Bahat
… the Department of Musicology at Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew University, the Oranim Seminary, the College of Music … places in Israel, where they found communities from Yemen singing and dancing. As part of this study, they produced … (' The music in my life'). For the full autobiography in Hebrew see here ) See also: Avner Bahat's official website …
Abraham Eilam-Amzallag
… Flute and Strings. He completed his Ph.D. studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and submitted his doctoral dissertation on " Modal Aspects of the Singing of Supplications ("Bakkashot") Among Morocco Jews", … and received a doctorate in 1986. In addition, he studied Hebrew medieval poetry, Arabic and English literature. …
Ruth HaCohen (Pinczower)
… is the Artur Rubinstein Professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she has held various … and originality in the Humanities); Composing Power, Singing Freedom: The Interplay of Music and Politics in the West (2017, in Hebrew, with Yaron Ezrahi, Polonsky Prize). She was honored …