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Test 1 Flashcards

1
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Alef-Bet

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The Hebrew alphabet

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Kashrut (kosher)

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A system of dietary laws that are biblically based

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Adon Olam

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“Lord of The World”

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4
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Oseh Shalom

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A special prayer which asks for peace

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5
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Haftarah

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The reading of the profits chanted at Shabbat

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Cantillation

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The practice of singing the bible

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7
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TANACH

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The complete Hebrew Bible

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8
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Torah

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The Five Books of Moses in scroll form

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9
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Nevi’im

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The Biblical prophets

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10
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K’tuvim

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The writings of the bible

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11
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Psalm 150

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Mentions praising God with musical instruments

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12
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Liturgy

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The prayer recitations that form part of the observance of Judaism

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13
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Trope

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Symbols that indicate melodic formulas

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14
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Aramaic

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Ancient language spoken by the first Jews

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15
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Hebrew

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Language of the Bible

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16
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Yiddish

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German and Hebrew

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17
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Ladino

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Spanish and Hebrew

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18
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Ashkenazic

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Jews that speak Yiddish

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19
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Sephardic

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Jews that speak Ladino

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20
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Diaspora

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Exile of Jews from their Holy Land

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21
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Rabbi

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Spiritual leader

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22
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Cantor/Chazzan

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Musical leader

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23
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Minyan

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A quorum on 10 Jews

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24
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Synagogue

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Jewish house of worship

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25
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Temple

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Ancient holy structure

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26
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Shul

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School

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27
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Chanukah

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8 day celebration commemorating victory of the maccabees

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28
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Rosh Hashana

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Jewish new year

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29
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Yom Kippur

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Day of atonement

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30
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Sabbath/Shabbat

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Weekly holiday (Saturday)

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31
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Passover/Pesach

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Commemorating the exodus from Egypt

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32
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Simchat Torah

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Celebrate annual reading of the Torah

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33
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Bar/Bat Mitzvah

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Rite of passage for Jewish boys/girls

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34
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Shofar

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Musical instrument used in biblical times/today

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35
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Polyphonic

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Multiple melodies

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36
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Monophonic

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One melody

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37
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Harmony

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Filling in notes to make chords

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38
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Melody

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Single precession of notes

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39
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Scale/mode

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String of adjacent notes

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40
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Ahava Raba

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Jewish scale (harmonic minor scale)

41
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Bar’chu

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First prayer in a service that requires a minyan

42
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Sh’ma

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Here O’Isreal

43
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Siddur

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Hebrew prayer book

44
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Chazzanut

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Cantorial singing

45
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High Holidays

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Beginning of the year (rash hashana + yom kippur)

46
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Khupa

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Canopy you stand under when you get married

47
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Yossele Rosenblatt

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Greatest cantor of all time

48
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Jackie Mendelssohn

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Contemporary cantor

49
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Salomone Rossi

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Wrote contemporary Jewish music

50
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Obadiah the Proselyte

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First guy to write Jewish music

51
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Duke Vincenzo of Mantua

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Rossi’s patron (paid Rossi’s salary)

52
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Choral

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Multiple parts

53
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Chant

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One part (one melody)

54
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Purim

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Telling of the book of Esther

55
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Ocho Kandelikas

56
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Kol Nidrei

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Yom Kippur

57
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Oy Chanukah

58
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Avinu Malkeynu

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Yom Kippur

59
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Cha Purim

60
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Dayenu

61
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Hashkediya

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Tu Bish’vat

62
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Sukkot

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Harvest festival

63
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Tu Bish’vat

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Holiday of trees

64
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Kristallnacht

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Night of Broken glass

65
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Yom HaShoah

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Holocaust Remembrance Day

66
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Yom HaAtzma-ut

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Israeli Independence Day

67
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Abayudaya

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Jewish tribe in Uganda

68
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Antiphonal

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2 choirs (echo)

69
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Badchen

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Entertains at Jewish weddings

70
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Farbrengen

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Speech given by Lubavitcher Rebbe

71
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Freylech

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Type of klezmer dance

72
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Tsimbl

73
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Nigun

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Wordless melody

74
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Talmund

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Jewish law

75
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Hannah Senesh

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Resistance fighter in the Holocaust

76
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Itzhak Perlman

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Famous violinist

77
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Lubavitcher Rebbe

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Rabbi Schneerson

78
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Matthieu le Juif

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Obscure French poet

79
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Ofra Haza

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Israeli singer

80
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Shlomo Carlebach

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Greatest singing rabbi

81
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Sholom Secunda

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Composed Bai Mir Bisdusheyn

82
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Theodore Bikel

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Folk singer

83
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A survivor from Warsaw

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12 tone piece

84
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Alma Rose

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Conductor of Auschwitz orchestra

85
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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

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German cellist

86
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Arnold Schoenberg

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12 Tone composer

87
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Brundibar

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Children’s opera

88
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Different Trains

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By Steve Reich

89
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Dremlen Feygel

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Sad child’s poem

90
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Hans Krasa

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Wrote Brundibar

91
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Osvaldo Golijov

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Wrote piece for Holocaust movie (in woods)

92
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Oyfn Pripitchik

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“On the Hearth”

93
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Tekyah

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Piece that Osvoldo wrote

94
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Theresienstadt (Terezin)

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Ghetto facade

95
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Emperor from Atlantis

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Written by Viktor Ulman

96
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Zog nit Keynmol

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Partisan’s Anthem

97
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“Bach in Auschwitz”

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About women’s orchestra

98
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“Holocaust: A musical Memorial”

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Musical memorial

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