Israel Alter

Israel Age (also: Yisra ʾ el age) ( born September 23, 1901 in Lemberg (Galicia ) / Lwów / Lviv, Austria - Hungary, today Ukraine, † November 16, 1979 in New York ( NY) ) was a Jewish cantor and last Chief Cantor in Hanover. The much -traveled composer was regarded as " the first Chasanim, the cantor of the cantors ."

Life

Family

Israel Age was the son of the merchant Abraham Judah age and his wife Frajda age, nee Klein. He had a brother who was also a cantor. Israel married Anna Brenner (* 1901), with whom he children Eleazar ( b. 1923 ) and Klara ( b. 1926 ) had. Anna's siblings Hermann Hersch Sobel burner (* 1903), David Sobel burner (* 1907) and Regina Brenner (* 1912) lived in Hanover last with the family aged under one roof in the Ohestraße 6, instead later the memorial commemorating was built on Jewish life in the Ohestraße and before the November 12, 2013 seven stumbling blocks were laid for the family. in the presence of this, had traveled " family members from South Africa, Canada and Israel."

Israel Age was the uncle of Cantor Benjamin Z. Maissner. This is related to Bernhard Maissner (also: Bejrisch Majzner Bernard, born 15 December 1877 in Przyrow / Piotrkow / Russia, as part of the so-called "Poland Action " on October 28, 1938 deported to Bentschen ( Zbaszyn ), on 10 August 1939 in the Treblinka extermination camp deported and later declared dead ) and his wife Regina Rivka Richter ( * 1877) and their children Isaac (* 1905), Rosa ( * 1912) and Isidore (* 1913). Also 2013 seven stumbling blocks in Hanover have been for these last seven family members laid on November 12, before the building Lange Laube 1

Career

About the childhood age Israel is hardly anything known. According to Talmudic studies already in Lviv and ending his regular school age visited Israel in Vienna a trade school, where he took in 1919 an examination in various subjects from. At the Vienna State Academy of Music and Dramatic Art from 1921 to 1923, he took lessons in " singing, choral singing, speech and presentation exercise, mime and dance, fencing, piano, general music theory and Italian ". In addition, age at Yitzhak Zvi Halprin, the cantor of the main synagogue of Lviv, taught in cantor singing, so that both age received a classical and cantoral vocal training. During his studies at the Vienna State Academy received age with only 20 years in Vienna his first job as a cantor in the synagogue club Brigittenauer temple as the successor of Joseph Basser. In the same year 1921 Israel married his wife Anna burner.

After the seizure of power in 1933 by the Nazis and then the government also organized in Hanover by the anti-Semitism deprivation and tyranny in particular against Jews emigrated to Israel in 1935 age initially to South Africa. There he became active in the largest synagogue in Johannesburg, the synagogue of the United Hebrew Congregation. In 1961 emigrated to the United States from age to work in New York as a cantor.

Discount

In the estate of Israel Ages ( literature, see the section ) as well as historical recordings of songs age found among other things, an album of self- collected concert reviews in several languages ​​on 40 shellac records from around 1930, including one for liturgical acts " do not actually take place -like " inclusion of a ' soul prayer for the fallen soldiers of the First World War. " After 1979 as the daughter of Israel had age inherited the plates in Tel Aviv, she came into the possession of the company acting in Toronto Cantor Benjamin Z. Maissner, a nephew age. After some initial considerations to leave the original shellac records of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Maissner opted for a transfer to Professor Andor Izsák, the Director of the European Centre for Jewish Music in Hannover. The plates are now " have a place where they were created. "

Exhibitions

• 2013, the exhibition Israel presented the Villa Seligmann in Hanover as part of the autumn days of Jewish music 2013 age. The last chief cantor in Hanover.

Works

The European Centre for Jewish Music has collected on shellac works Israel Age published ages in a three-part edition Cantor Israel New on CD:

• Vol 1 Liturgical songs,
• Vol 2 Yiddish songs and
• Vol 3 operatic arias and songs.