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Josef Bonime
… his degrees, he toured as a piano accompanist with famed violinists Mischa Elman and Eugene Ysaye. In the 1920’s he … Vitaphone talkies such as Mischa Elman (1926), and arranged music for film short subjects. In 1933, Bonime joined the faculty of the Julliard School of Music. Beginning in 1925, Bonime worked as a composer and …
Max Leibowitz
… Sarah. He had 3 children. Leibowitz was an American klezmer violinist and was a contemporary of other Romanian-born … 'Baym Rebbe's Sideh' (Classic klezmer) … American klezmer violinist, composer & conductor … 0 … undefined … Max …
Joel Walbe
… his business and his way of life. He rejected young Joel's musical interests, and considered the study of music and literature to be a foreign influence. Though … cultivate his musical interest in secret by practicing the violin secretly in the attic, and by listening to organ …
Reuben Rinder
… United States and pursued his study of Jewish liturgical music. In 1910, Rinder held a cantorial position at Temple … , Ben-Haim and Marc Lavry , and launching the career of violinists Yehudi Menuhin and Isaac Stern. These … Rinder was influential in shaping 20th-century Jewish musical culture. Through insights from the Rinder papers …
Harry Kandel
… and bandleader, one of the pioneers of modern klezmer music. He ran an orchestra which consisted of a variety of … himself on clarinet, trombone, tuba, xylophone, cornet, violin, flute, viola and piano. Their hits peaked from about … in Swing'. Kandel studied at the Odessa Conservatory of Music and served in army band of the Russian czar, moving to …

Federico Consolo
… Italian violinist, composer and scholar. Federico Consolo ('Yehiel … Sefaradi') was born in 1841 in Ancona, Italy. He studied violin and had a career as a violinist, until a nerve injury … - Judezmo ,Judeo-Spanish … Cantorate … Hazzan … Violin music … Liturgical music … Italian music … Ladino … Sephardi …
Mark Isakovich Rabinovich
… of the Russian Empire; now Brusilov, Ukraine). He studied music under the guidance of his grandfather, the klezmer violinist and composer Israel-Moishe Rabinovich. In … died in Kiev in 1940. Source: Yiddishmusic site . … Violinist and Conductor … 0 … Conductor … Violinist … Jewish …
Haim Effendi
… In spite of his unparalleled fame as a singer and musician during his lifetime, very few details about the … in one of the most important centers of Sephardi religious music, Edirne, where a local Jewish choir called Maftirim … up. He ordered them to bring Haim Effendi, the most famous violinist in all of Turkey. They came to Haim Effendi’s …
Abraham Ber Birnbaum
… to a Hassidic family in Pultusk, Poland. He was exposed to music as a young child while accompanying his father on … Rabbis of Kutsk and Ger, where Abraham would hear Hassidic music. Although he was considered an Illui in Talmud, … choir of the local cantor Leizerke, as well as by studying violin with a local Klezmer and playing at Hassidic …
Abel Ehrlich
… of composers in various institutions and at the Tel-Aviv music academy since 1964 (1967-1991, at Tel Aviv University). Although he was interested in Mizrahi music, most of his works are atonal or serial. “His musical … Ehrlich would argue) is still the 1953 Bashrav for solo violin, where he evokes the Turkish rondo-like form, …