… Borodin and Moussorgsky – was introduced to the Russian Jewish composer and music critic  Joel Engel .  Stasov … for abandoning his own heritage for the Slavic culture of Russian intellectuals. “Where is your national … Engel,  Er hat mir fest gelobt \   Engel left Russia for Germany in 1922, where he established the Juwal Publishing …

… an unprecedented overview of the history of religious Jewish music. Another of Naumbourg’s important contributions …     … Composer, Synagogue singer, Musicologist, French Jewish reformer of synagogue music & choirmaster … Composers … … Composer … Hazzan … Cantor … French … Jewish … Reform … Synagogue … Music … Melodies … Salomon di …

… Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau, Germany in 1900. His father was a cantor and his mother had … several works for the concert hall and a number of works on Jewish themes. In 1946, four years before his death, he composed the Jewish prayer ' Kiddush ,' dedicated to his father. See Kurt …

… 1944 and then transferred to a labor camp in Braunschweig , Germany where he was liberated in May of 1945. After the … he became active in the cultural affairs of the city’s Jewish community. Hershkowitz was deeply saddened by the …

… individual musicians were preserved, shedding light on the culture and participants of the musical life in Terezín. … them to H.G. Adler after the war.  Ullmann’s interest in Jewish themes peaked for the first time in Terezín, …

… The Nazi rise to power in Germany at the beginning of 1933 brought to an abrupt halt an important development in the field of Jewish music in Munich, especially with regard to the … Ben-Haim. A study of musical developments in the Munich Jewish community of the 1920's may provide some indication …

… in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1912. He began his studies at the Jewish seminary in Sarajevo, where his father, though not a … 16th century. With its vigorous cultural life and vibrant Jewish press, it eventually flourished as a center of Jewish learning, and a place in which the Jewish community …

… great significance of the ‘Akedah narrative in Ashkenazi culture, as expressed through the poems that were sung to … Yiẓḥak , or ‘Akedah ) has assumed an important function in Jewish religion and culture since Antiquity. This renowned … emerged during the tenth century in present day southern Germany and northern France. However, it also acquired two …

… 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … Belarus, and his exposure to the Haskalah and modern German culture that spread to the new Jewish settlements of … Yemenites and Ashkenazi Jews from Poland (i.e. not from Germany!), a connection that will later allow him to claim …