Joel Engel was a Russian music critic, composer and one of the leading figures in the Jewish art music movement. Born in the Russian Empire, and later moving to Berlin and then to Mandatory Palestine, Engel has been called "the true founding father of the modern renaissance of Jewish music."
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Hanna Rovina in The Dybbuk
Engel (left) with a phonograph used for recording Jewish folk songs
Title page of a publication of Juwal. The cover sheet shows the logo that appeared on the Society's publications: a star of David enclosing a harp, flanked by a winged lion and a deer, recalling the Biblical verse "Strong as a lion, quick as a deer."Musicians born in the 1860s 6
About this person
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1868 to 1927 · aged 58
Written about in
13 languages
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