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  • and audiences through the illustrious music for the piano. ... Rubinstein was born to Jewish parents in Vikhvatinets (now in Transnistria ...
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  • chant. Chant may be considered speech, music, or a heightened or stylized ... When performing a chant, the singer usually uses music and sacred ...
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  • Miller Cantorial School and College of Jewish Music. Members of the American ... * Jewish music history * Pastoral care and counseling * Theology ...
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  • – 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 ...
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  • that is used as a musical instrument for Jewish religious purposes. It is ... , it has played a more restricted role in Jewish religious life. ...
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  • Century associated largely with the folk music of Eastern Europe, notably ... Ofer Ronen, [https://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/content/joseph-michael ...
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  • that is used in performances of classical music, in churches with more formalized ... In traditional and modern Jewish liturgy, "Amen" is often ...
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  • Liturgical music is a form of music originating as a part of religious ... The qualities that create the distinctive character of liturgical ...
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  • Meyerbeer was born to a Jewish family in Tasdorf, near Berlin, Germany ... first grand opera. The fusion of dramatic music, melodramatic plot and sumptuous ...
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  • performer of his own romantic piano music pieces. Though he only lived ... American themes into European classical music, the first Pan-American artist ...
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  • Orthodox Judaism is the Jewish tradition that adheres to a relatively ... the word 'orthodox' into Jewish discussion. It was the modern ...
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  • rants. King became well-known as a Jewish comedian and satirist. He ... He was the first recipient of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture ...
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  • Moshe ben Maimon (March 30, 1135 – December 13, 1204) was a Jewish ... Maimonides is typically regarded as the greatest of the medieval Jewish ...
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  • with the imagery of the kabbalah, or Jewish mystical tradition, where ... frail health at a young age. Sachs studied music, literature, and dance during ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002) was an American ... and Mollie (Friedman) Potok (d. 1985), Jewish immigrants from Poland who ...
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  • techniques of different periods of music, such as the Baroque, Romantic ... Schnittke's father was born in Frankfurt to a Jewish family of ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Shavuot (or Shavuos; "Weeks") is a Jewish holiday that occurs ... festivals known as the shalosh regalim in Jewish tradition. ...
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