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Nikolai Kaufman
… Musicologist, folklorist and composer Nikolay (or Nikolaï) … from neighboring Rumania. Most Jews left Bulgaria after World War II. Kaufman dedicated efforts to record all Jewish … first album, Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares , are renowned worldwide. The second album of the choir (1988) went on to …
Eric Mandell
… Mandell passed away in Philadelphia on February 6, 1988. Musically gifted since his youth, he trained under prominent … scores (manuscript and printed) and books about Jewish music while writing for journals on Jewish music and music … one of the largest private libraries of Jewish music in the world." He was not exaggerating. His collection compares in …
Eleanor Gordon Mlotek
… the oldest continuous venue for Yiddish theater in the world. Moish is a member of the board of directors of the … and quickly gained a name for herself as a scholar of music and folklore. In 1970, she and Yosl began writing a … highly-regarded and best-selling Yiddish songbooks in the world. After Yosl’s death in 2000, Chana went on to …
Joseph Mlotek
… He also published Yiddish poetry in newspapers. He spent World War II in Shanghai and moved to the United States in …