Yitzhak Edel was born in Warsaw in 1896 to a Hassidic family. His grandfather, a…

… sing Lekh le-shalom geshem held an even stronger grip on Judaism having to overcome the forced conversions of the … Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue Music: In Nineteenth-Century Reform Sources from Hamburg: Ancient Tradition in the Dawn … Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue Music in Nineteenth-Century Reform Sources from Hamburg: Ancient Tradition in the Dawn …

… enthusiastic conversation with bandleader Artie Shaw about Judaism. Although Shaw was a white Ashkenazi Jew, through …

… Proceedings of the EAJS Congress, Toledo, 1998 , Vol. II, Judaism from the Renaissance to Modern Times, Eds. J. …

Kashtan (Shlomoh ben Shimshon, or Salomon, the son of Samson), aka Salomon Weintraub…

… the first Jewish organist of the nineteenth-century German Reform movement, who advanced the new ritual of the Hamburg … were sung in different modes, but after the Counter Reformation chanting the Lamentations in the “sixth mode” … Tensions between Liturgical Custom and Halakkhah in Judaism . Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press. Levi, Leo. …