JERUSALEM — The entry is arranged according to the following outline: history name protohistory the bronze age david and first temple period second temple period the roman period byzantine jerusalem arab period crusader period mamluk period … Encyclopedia of Judaism
GREENBLATT, ELIYAHU — (1933– ), ḥazzan. Born in Jerusalem, Greenblatt studied music at the Jerusalem Conservatory and trained as a ḥazzan under shelomo zalman rivlin . He conducted the Shirat Israel choir in Jerusalem and sang with the choir of Leib Glanz in Tel Aviv … Encyclopedia of Judaism
HAINOVITZ, ASHER — (1939– ), hazzan. Hainovitz was born in Jerusalem and studied ḥazzanut under shelomo zalman rivlin . He studied at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music and later received his L.R.S.M. degree from the Royal Academy of Music of London. After… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
LERER, JOSHUA — (1920– ), ḥazzan. Born in Jerusalem to a family of cantors, Lerer studied ḥazzanut under shelomo zalman rivlin and music at the Jerusalem Institute of Music. After serving as cantor in the Har ha Carmel Synagogue in Haifa for 12 years, and in… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
POLITICAL LIFE AND PARTIES — Introduction It was largely due to the existence of the pre state political parties, which had conducted intensive political activities for almost half a century within the framework of the yishuv , under the British Mandate for Palestine, that… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
HEBREW LITERATURE, MODERN — definition and scope beginnings periodization … Encyclopedia of Judaism
PARDO, DAVID SAMUEL BEN JACOB — (1718–1790), rabbinical author and poet. Born in Venice, he went to Sarajevo for a time as a result of a dispute over an inheritance, and from there to Spalato, in Dalmatia. From approximately 1738 he was a teacher of children, at the same time… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
HASSAGAT GEVUL — (Heb. הָסַּגַת גְּבוּל), a concept which originally had specific reference to the unlawful taking of another s land; later it was extended to embrace encroachment on various economic, commercial, and incorporeal rights of others. Encroachment on… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
TALMON, ZVI — (1922– ), ḥazzan, composer, conductor. Born in Jerusalem, Talmon obtained his basic cantorial education in the Shirat Israel choir there with Cantor solomon zalman rivlin . He studied at the Eẓ Ḥayyim yeshivah and at the Mizrachi teachers seminar … Encyclopedia of Judaism
