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Mordekhai Hershman
… El Temple, he continued to appear in concerts of classical music, record commercial records and tour throughout … the porous line separating secular from the religious musical practices led by great cantors of the time such as … time, Hershman released not only recordings of cantorial music but also folk songs in Yiddish. As the following …
Jacob Beimel
… Philadelphia). Has written many articles concerning Jewish music. Founded the Journal, Jewish Music , in which he published a few of his own compositions and adaptations (synagogue music, folk songs, and Hassidic melodies). … American …
Israel Meyer Japhet
… in 1892. Japhet composed a large body of Jewish liturgical music for use in his Synagogue. His arrangements were …
Pinhas Jassinowsky
… Ukraine . Jassinowsky’s first exposure to Jewish liturgical music was as a choirboy under director Pinhas Minkowski in Kherson . He went on to study music in St. Petersburg where he worked as an assistant … was also a prolific composer of liturgical and Yiddish folk music. His most well known liturgical arrangements include, …
Alter Yehiel Karniol
… York , Karniol released several recordings of liturgical music and original arrangements of Synagogue melodies. … …
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… community took notice of Asher Mizrahi’s pleasant voice and musical talents, and he began to earn money working as a local hazzan and as an ud musician. He also supported himself by selling embroidered … Moshe, Mizrahi became a highly respected figure in the musical life of Jerusalem , writing songs in Ladino, …
David Abikzer
… in Casablanca, Morocco, and it was there that he began his musical education. His vocal talent was evident from a young … the United States, he also graduated from the US School of Music. Abikzer's unique position at Cedarhurst is a … This vast recorded repertoire has represented a variety of musical styles. See, for example, the following recording of …
Eliezer S. Abinun
… He was an acknowledged authority on both the liturgical music and the secular Romancero tradition of the Sephardim. …
Isaac Offenbach
… He left his hometown in 1799 to travel as a wandering musician. In his travels he picked up the epithet “der … settled in Duetz where he worked for many years as a saloon musician. Offenbach moved to Cologne in 1816 where he was employed as a music teacher, and later as a local hazzan. He retained his …
Jacques Offenbach
… was born in Cologne to father Isaac Offenbach , a local music teacher and hazzan. He was identified as a musical prodigy early on, and at the age of four he began to … Julius (age nineteen) to Paris to continue their formal musical education and to search for employment. Jacques was …