Search results for "Jewish music" - New World Encyclopedia
From New World Encyclopedia
- and audiences through the illustrious music for the piano. ... Rubinstein was born to Jewish parents in Vikhvatinets (now in Transnistria ...7 KB (986 words) - 06:51, 31 July 2023
- chant. Chant may be considered speech, music, or a heightened or stylized ... When performing a chant, the singer usually uses music and sacred ...5 KB (821 words) - 01:44, 4 December 2023
- conductors of opera and symphonic music in the first half of the ... He was born to a secular Jewish family in the Pest section of Budapest ...5 KB (713 words) - 07:07, 15 April 2024
- Miller Cantorial School and College of Jewish Music. Members of the American ... * Jewish music history * Pastoral care and counseling * Theology ...15 KB (2,193 words) - 19:28, 25 November 2023
- – May 3, 1856) was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer ... child, Adolphe Adam preferred to improvise music on his own rather than study ...7 KB (994 words) - 06:12, 15 June 2023
- that is used as a musical instrument for Jewish religious purposes. It is ... , it has played a more restricted role in Jewish religious life. ...13 KB (2,151 words) - 14:23, 27 January 2023
- Century associated largely with the folk music of Eastern Europe, notably ... Ofer Ronen, [https://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/content/joseph-michael ...7 KB (1,049 words) - 21:33, 15 January 2024
- that is used in performances of classical music, in churches with more formalized ... In traditional and modern Jewish liturgy, "Amen" is often ...6 KB (852 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- Liturgical music is a form of music originating as a part of religious ... The qualities that create the distinctive character of liturgical ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- Meyerbeer was born to a Jewish family in Tasdorf, near Berlin, Germany ... first grand opera. The fusion of dramatic music, melodramatic plot and sumptuous ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 20:19, 14 December 2023
- performer of his own romantic piano music pieces. Though he only lived ... American themes into European classical music, the first Pan-American artist ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 07:55, 9 March 2023
- Orthodox Judaism is the Jewish tradition that adheres to a relatively ... the word 'orthodox' into Jewish discussion. It was the modern ...17 KB (2,525 words) - 02:20, 18 November 2022
- rants. King became well-known as a Jewish comedian and satirist. He ... He was the first recipient of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 04:26, 17 June 2023
- Moshe ben Maimon (March 30, 1135 – December 13, 1204) was a Jewish ... Maimonides is typically regarded as the greatest of the medieval Jewish ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 05:30, 5 November 2022
- with the imagery of the kabbalah, or Jewish mystical tradition, where ... frail health at a young age. Sachs studied music, literature, and dance during ...11 KB (1,767 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- wrote for all economic levels so that his music could touch as many as possible ... father, William, was from a non-practicing Jewish family; his mother, née ...8 KB (1,265 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- On September 29-30, 1941 at least 33,771 Jewish civilians were murdered ... at least two cemeteries, among them a New Jewish Cemetery that had been closed ...9 KB (1,415 words) - 05:23, 26 August 2023
- Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002) was an American ... and Mollie (Friedman) Potok (d. 1985), Jewish immigrants from Poland who ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- techniques of different periods of music, such as the Baroque, Romantic ... Schnittke's father was born in Frankfurt to a Jewish family of ...10 KB (1,316 words) - 18:06, 20 July 2023
- mother was born in Sarajevo to a Sephardic Jewish father and a Bosnian Muslim ... also studied composition and began to write music. Zemlinsky had a ...12 KB (1,584 words) - 06:31, 20 July 2023
- Shavuot (or Shavuos; "Weeks") is a Jewish holiday that occurs ... festivals known as the shalosh regalim in Jewish tradition. ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 13:22, 27 January 2023
- particularly for his waltzes, a form of music he was instrumental in popularizing ... orchestra, specializing in light, danceable music including waltzes, quadrilles ...11 KB (1,610 words) - 14:55, 1 August 2022
- them are very few. His attachment to his Jewish background is displayed both ... Alkan was born Charles-Valentin Morhange to a Jewish family in Paris ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
- classical composer of concert and film music. Instrumental in forging ... Spring, a score that also looked to folk music for its inspiration. He also ...13 KB (1,822 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- bassist best known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony ... By establishing the Tanglewood Insitute of Music in 1940 he sought to encourage ...13 KB (1,788 words) - 09:57, 26 January 2023
- religious Orthodox Jews and he attended a Jewish elementary school, then a ... I reached the age of fifteen, I left the Jewish way of life and the study ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
- are camps for the performing arts, rock music, magic, computers, children ... Jewish summer camps enjoy a long history in the United States.Jonathan ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 22:22, 26 February 2023
- Philharmonic Orchestra. Later he became music director of the Vienna Philharmonic ... the other hand, was among those in the Jewish music community who came to ...21 KB (3,095 words) - 11:58, 5 May 2023
- #039;s views on race, which threatened his Jewish wife Laura Luzzatto, only ... were largely spent writing essays rather than music. He had no more ...10 KB (1,496 words) - 02:43, 5 November 2022
- twentieth-century American composer and music administrator. In addition ... achieved prominence in the international music scene. Although he was influenced ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 10:50, 12 May 2023
- to the lack of acceptance from the Jewish leaders, but also the extension ... degradation, as swine are not kosher under Jewish law.) There he comes to his ...15 KB (2,442 words) - 07:38, 18 November 2022
- the International Society for Contemporary Music festival in Salzburg, which ... nature of his scores. Today much of his music sounds relatively tame in ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 17:06, 21 November 2022
- as meaning that those who follow the law, Jewish or not, will be able to inherit ... antipathy between Samaritans and the Jewish population, he immediately ...15 KB (2,463 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- and Irene Cohen Luzzato who was of Jewish origin from Trieste. LaGuardia ... Congressional district was shifting from a Jewish and Italian-American population ...15 KB (2,248 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- youth, writing Catholic poems despite his Jewish background, a follower of ... Ehrenburg a was prominent member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 23:54, 22 January 2023
- new sounds. Known as the "bad boy in music" because of his aesthetic ... Antheil was not Polish, as he claimed, nor Jewish, as others thought. His father ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 07:01, 18 April 2024
- and operas. He was also a highly regarded music conductor. ... his father in his youth, writing his first music at the age of six. He continued ...15 KB (2,261 words) - 01:47, 14 December 2022
- writer, allegorist, and a well-known Jewish-American author. He has received ... 26, 1914, in Brooklyn, New York to Russian Jewish immigrants, Max and Bertha ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 15:38, 29 September 2023
- for his knowledge of the orchestral music of German operas, the libretto ... aspects of his art form. On the topic of music and its influence of the ...16 KB (2,368 words) - 04:44, 22 November 2023
- quot; which had arisen from the Arab and Jewish commentaries on Aristotle. ... other things, he rejected the idea of "music of the spheres" as ridiculous; ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- records during this golden age of popular music, Ertegun also wrote songs ... Much loved in the music world, Ertegün was honored with several memorial ...12 KB (1,872 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- to the exegesis of biblically-related Jewish law. Jewish tradition allows ... are used in the interpretation of Halakha (Jewish law). However, aggadic (non ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 17:34, 9 November 2022
- African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music ... vernacular traditions. African American music and all aspects of African ...16 KB (2,453 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- the soul of punk rock created a form of music which more clearly portrayed ... Hills neighborhood of Queens, New York, of Jewish heritage. In his youth, he ...10 KB (1,557 words) - 02:04, 9 February 2023
- or the circumstances of their composition. Jewish and Christian tradition maintains ... psalmos), a lyric ode or a song set to music; a sacred song accompanied ...21 KB (3,276 words) - 00:29, 19 November 2023
- well-off saloon owners of Hungarian Jewish descent. Her mother, Rose ... org/discover/infocus/comedy/radner Jewish Women in Comedy] Jewish Women ...19 KB (2,934 words) - 00:41, 25 March 2024
- that it was "un-German" or "Jewish Bolshevist" in nature ... of Romantic realism Heroic art. Similarly, music was expected to be tonal ...20 KB (2,833 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
- Born to a Jewish family in Odessa during a period of social unrest ... Babel had to overcome the quota for Jewish students (10 percent within ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 18:50, 7 March 2024
- (July 7, 1887 – March 28, 1985) was a Jewish painter who was born in Belarus ... of his Belorussian roots as well as his Jewish heritage. ...14 KB (2,115 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- and pianists, used a working man's music to influence the kings and ... Gershwin's music exudes the power of spring-like hope. Unlike ...15 KB (2,281 words) - 13:20, 30 December 2022
- vocalists in twentieth century popular music. while lodging with a sympathetic immigrant Jewish family. During these years ...17 KB (2,605 words) - 02:51, 4 November 2022
- in Berdichev, Ukraine into an emancipated Jewish family, he did not receive ... the text to conceal the specifically anti-Jewish character of the atrocities ...10 KB (1,566 words) - 16:18, 14 November 2022
- Jascha Heifetz (February 2, 1901 – December 10, 1987) was a Jewish ... Heifetz was born to Jewish parents in Vilnius, Lithuania, then part ...17 KB (2,485 words) - 09:58, 1 April 2024
- from other songs is the fact that the music is far less important than ... Bards were rarely permitted to record their music, given the political nature ...11 KB (1,802 words) - 08:06, 20 September 2023
- It has inspired numerous works of art, music, and drama. ... against or resisted. According to the Jewish Encyclopedia the opening ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 00:21, 19 November 2023
- as symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano music, and chamber music. Born into a well-to-do Jewish family who later converted to Christianity ...31 KB (4,782 words) - 17:14, 26 March 2024
- of the time, growing up in a middle class Jewish family, with siblings and ... backgrounds (Wanda was Catholic, Horowitz Jewish) was not an issue, since ...22 KB (3,176 words) - 20:45, 3 May 2023
- Primo Levi (July 31, 1919 – April 11, 1987) was a Jewish Italian ... Levi was born in Turin in 1919 into a liberal Jewish family. In 1934 ...16 KB (2,482 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- George Steiner was born in 1929 in Paris, France to Jewish Viennese ... the Nazis occupied Paris, and of the many Jewish children in Steiner's ...21 KB (2,963 words) - 08:15, 23 January 2023
- Apart from the libretto for the opera Maximilien Kolbe (music by Dominique ... * Le Maître (1962) Music by Germaine Tailleferre of Les Six ...15 KB (2,272 words) - 04:19, 23 March 2024
- his own life to save the lives of two Jewish children in 1938. ... Hitler's Germany, while Baer, who was Jewish, displayed an embroidered ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 00:59, 9 November 2022
- Zukofsky was born in New York to Lithuanian Jewish parents and grew ... through sonnets to free verse and the music of Bach. Section 12, which ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 04:11, 4 November 2022
- Hesse.] Retrieved August 25, 2007. and the Jewish Museum of New York (2006). challenge. Arthur Danto, writing of the Jewish Museum's 2006 retrospective ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 04:48, 23 March 2024
- Wolfgang in particular developed a love of classical music. ... his training in science with his love of music.Robert Sherrill, "Natural ...14 KB (2,050 words) - 23:20, 17 May 2023
- 11, 1864 - May 5, 1921), was an Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist ... Fried was born in Vienna to a Jewish family. At the age of 15, he ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 07:20, 20 July 2023
- War I. He cause a major controversy in the music world in 1935 when he revealed ... Kreisler was born in Vienna to a Jewish father and a Roman Catholic ...12 KB (1,707 words) - 07:05, 15 April 2024
- Otto Weininger was born the son of the Jewish goldsmith, Leopold Weininger ... who has a genius for, say, mathematics, or music, but there is only the universal ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- Born William Samuel Rosenberg to a Jewish family in New York City ... In June 1934, he opened The Billy Rose Music Hall at 52nd and Broadway ...9 KB (1,337 words) - 17:39, 31 October 2023
- of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh). According to Jewish tradition, the Torah was ... the entire spectrum of authoritative Jewish religious teachings throughout ...24 KB (3,856 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- difficulties of reconciling traditional Jewish culture with modernity. The ... Roth, Towering Novelist Who Explored Lust, Jewish Life and America, Dies at ...23 KB (3,273 words) - 22:40, 28 March 2023
- He wrote in Yiddish. From a traditional Jewish village, he would move to ... Street in the Yiddish-speaking poor Jewish quarter of Warsaw in 1908 ...18 KB (2,895 words) - 18:52, 7 March 2024
- *In Jewish liturgy, Ten Martyrs are singled out as a group. *There are said to be Ten Lost Tribes of Israel (those other than Judah and Benjamin). ...13 KB (1,819 words) - 06:26, 13 June 2023
- the plays resulted in a rise in anti-Jewish violence following performances ... in light of their potential to cause anti-Jewish sentiment. The U.S. Council ...20 KB (2,912 words) - 09:02, 18 November 2022
- The Standard Dictionary, included the The Jewish Encyclopedia, The Metropolitan ... 1901. The Launching of a Great Work: The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 19:40, 7 February 2023
- in London, Ontario, Canada of a Polish–Jewish family, was the president ... Pearl Leah Eichelbaum, a Yiddish-speaking Jewish family from Krasnosielc, ...9 KB (1,211 words) - 08:50, 13 March 2024
- next book is Joshua (which, according to Jewish tradition, was written by ... According to Jewish tradition, the Torah was revealed to Moses by ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- rights activism, literature, poetry, and music. In 1904 Johnson went on ... After successes with their songwriting and music the brothers worked at Broadway ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 14:28, 24 March 2023
- ) is a major Jewish festival, also known as Succoth, Sukkos, the Feast ... During Sukkot, observant Jewish families eat, sleep, and entertain ...19 KB (2,871 words) - 21:43, 26 February 2023
- visited by the Holocaust in which 10,000 Jewish people were killed, and has ... of the population of Chişinău was Jewish--one of the highest numbers ...21 KB (3,032 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- conductors at the Tanglewood Institute of Music remained his passion until ... whose music fused elements of jazz, Jewish music, theatre music, and the ...27 KB (3,897 words) - 22:15, 20 December 2023
- order to distinguish their writings from Jewish scholarly works due to controversy ... for far longer than in the West. The Jewish religion still retains the ...13 KB (1,930 words) - 22:22, 7 January 2024
- Matthew is most closely aligned with the Jewish tradition, and the author ... show that this Gospel was written by Jewish Christians of Iudaea Province. ...26 KB (3,813 words) - 14:10, 30 December 2022
- the illegitimate offspring of Lyubov and a Jewish banker, Lazar Poliakoff. ... choreographed The Dying Swan for her to the music of Saint-Saens. It became ...11 KB (1,683 words) - 06:48, 28 July 2023
- European dance, and also a genre of dance music, familiar throughout Europe ... around the circumference of the circle. The music for the polka is in moderately ...27 KB (4,215 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- in 1927. The film is the story of a young Jewish man, Jakie Rabinowitz, who ... Dandy, Till the Clouds Roll By, Words and Music, and Three Little Words. ...14 KB (2,198 words) - 04:22, 17 June 2023
- writer of poetry, drama, essays, and music criticism. Writing in the ... working initially in a warehouse for music records. His interest in ...18 KB (2,687 words) - 07:05, 25 July 2023
- born in New York City into an upper class Jewish family. Her older brother ... *Jewish Giant at Home with His Parents in The Bronx, NY. University ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 11:54, 29 January 2024
- to a Los Angeles woman, the heir of a Jewish family that had its art stolen ... * Music I (1895) * Love (1895) * Sculpture (1896) * Tragedy (1897) ...15 KB (2,101 words) - 21:28, 26 July 2023
- The Nazis coordinated an attack on Jewish people and their property ... the grip of skillfully orchestrated anti-Jewish violence. In the early hours ...26 KB (3,708 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2023
- first ghettos were established to confine Jewish populations in Europe. They ... The original ghetto was formed by the Jewish immigrants to Venice in the ...30 KB (4,539 words) - 23:27, 21 October 2023
- The Literary Digest (founded in 1890), Jewish Encyclopedia (12 volumes ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure 212425697 ...7 KB (985 words) - 05:46, 15 June 2023
- The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical ... The invisible, vibratory world of instrumental music can be said to ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 17:43, 20 December 2022
- instruments. He wrote a notable book on music, Kitab al-Musiqa (The Book ... he charmed the court with his discourse and music, and then refused the Sultan’s ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- Gaza and neighboring countries as the Jewish state was formed. ... Ashdod. The first settlers, 22 families of Jewish immigrants from Morocco arrived ...25 KB (3,733 words) - 04:02, 18 August 2023
- the Apostle among the natives and the Jewish diaspora in Kerala. They ... community was strengthened by Christian-Jewish Knanaya colonies of third ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- Philip Mendes asserts that before the anti-Jewish actions of the 1930s and ... Local Yemenite Jewish traditions trace the earliest settlement of ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- fact regarding the Nazi massacre of the Jewish population of Kiev in September ... of Houston's Moores School of Music in 1998, under the baton ...20 KB (2,819 words) - 11:11, 24 May 2023
- of rabbinical discussions pertaining to Jewish law, biblical interpretation ... were quoted to "prove" ideas of Jewish arrogance and hatred toward ...32 KB (4,820 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- Baer was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of a Jewish German immigrant ... didn't ban the picture because I have Jewish blood. They banned it because ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 00:53, 9 November 2022
- Born in Brooklyn to Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine, Kaye became ... when he appeared at the London Palladium music hall in 1948, he "roused ...13 KB (1,920 words) - 06:25, 15 January 2023
