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Synagogue is an allegorical mural by John Singer Sargent in the Boston Public Library. [1] It is part of Sargent's larger Triumph of Religion mural cycle in the library's central branch at Copley Square. Synagogue was unveiled in 1919, and it sparked immediate controversy. [2]
Azi Schwartz (Hebrew: עזי שוורץ) (born September 1981) is a chazzan (cantor), vocal performer, and recording artist whose music reaches Jewish and interfaith audiences internationally.
Cantor as a profession generally refers to those leading a Jewish congregation, although it also applies to the lead singer or choir director in Christian contexts. [1] In formal Jewish worship, a cantor is a person who sings solo verses or passages to which the choir or congregation responds.
Joseph Malovany (born in 1941 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli-born American tenor soloist. A world-famous cantor, serving as Hazzan of New York's Fifth Avenue Synagogue since 1973, and a Distinguished Professor of Liturgical Music at Philip and Sarah Belz School of Jewish Music, Yeshiva University.
Shlomo Carlebach (Hebrew: שלמה קרליבך; 14 January 1925 – 20 October 1994), known as Reb Shlomo to his followers, was a rabbi, religious teacher, spiritual leader, composer, and singer dubbed "the singing rabbi" during his lifetime. [1]
On the other hand, the origin of Gregorian chant, which was the earliest manifestation of European classical music, was Jewish choral music of the Temple and synagogue, according to a large number of analytical liturgists [14] and music historians. [15]
However, during the mediaeval period among Ashkenazi Jews there developed the tradition of the hazzan being accompanied for certain prayers by a bass voice (known in Yiddish as singer) and a descant (in Yiddish, meshorrer). This combination was known in Yiddish as keleichomos. [10] "Emet El Shmeha", traditional Jewish 17th century song.
Mordechai Hershman was born in Chernihiv in the Chernigov Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). [1] His father, who was a glass merchant, died when he was six years old, and he came to live with foster parents. [2]