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Jewish Music in Spain

Article about the historical situation of Jewish Music in Spain, by Jorge Rozemblum, director of Radio Sefarad and Spanish correspondent of the European network of Jewish music …

Meïmoun, François (1979)

Born in 1979, François Meïmoun studied at the Conservatory of Paris (CNSMDP) with Michaël Levinas, at the Sorbonne-Paris IV University and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes where he finished …

Kluger, Jacques (1912-1963)

Jacques Kluger was born on January 23, 1912 in Antwerp. His father, Maurice, a diamond merchant born in Wisjnicz in Galicia (now in Poland) in 1883, moved to Antwerp in …

Arnold, Jacques (1946)

Jacques Arnold was born on December 29, 1946, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, into a traditionalist family attached to the Jewish culture. He attended the local primary school and …

Piattelli, Elio (1910-2001)

Born in Rome on May 30, 1910, Elio Piattelli graduated in 1931 from the University of Rome with a degree in Literature with the highest mark of “110 out of …

The Samy Elmaghribi Foundation

The Samy Elmaghribi Foundation was created on August 21, 2014, in Montreal (Canada), by the children of Salomon Amzallag (1922-2008) and Messody Cohen (1923-2015) in order to perpetuate the teachings …

WEINBERG, JACOB (1879-1956)

Born in 1879 in Odessa, Jacob Weinberg was a pianist and composer who wrote more than 135 works for the piano and other instruments. Born to a totally-integrated Russian Jewish …

DYCK, VLADIMIR (1882-1943)

The biography of this composer, who was born on March 19, 1882 in Odessa and died in Auschwitz in 1943, still remains incomplete. The fifth child of a modest family, …

Rubin, Ruth (1906-2000)

Born into a Jewish family from Bessarabia, Ruth Rubin has devoted her life to the preservation and dissemination of Yiddish song. Her publications, based on her fieldwork, have made her one of the world's foremost collectors and specialists of Yiddish, following in the footsteps of Moshe Beregovski (1892-1961) and Yehuda Leyb Cahan (1881-1937) …

KREIN, ALEXANDER (1883-1951)

Alexander Krein (Aleksander Abramovič Krejn) was born on October 20, 1883 in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod.  His father, Abraham, was a violinist with a passion for Jewish music, …

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