Max Helfman (Yiddish: מאַקס העלפמאַן, 1901–1963) was a Polish-born American Jewish composer, choral conductor, pianist, singer, and educator.[1][2][3][4] He had a long career arranging both secular and religious Jewish music and was considered to have a gift for writing music that was both singable and emotionally complex, which was modern and original and yet rooted in traditional folk and synagogue melodies.[1][5][3][6]
Among his best known works are his Shabbat Kodesh (1942), a Sabbath Cantata, and his Di naye hagode (1948), a Yiddish-language Cantata about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.[7][8][9] He directed many choirs and educational institutes on both the east and west coasts, most famously the Brandeis-Bardin Institute in California for seventeen years; his influence is most strongly felt on the religious music of Reform Judaism.[2][10][11] He was also well known for socialist and pro-Zionist causes and affiliations.[1]
^ abcLevin, Neil W. "Helfman, Max". Milken Archive of Jewish Music. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
^ abSlobin, Mark (2002). Chosen voices : the story of the American cantorate (1st pbk. ed.). Urbana: University of Illinois Press. pp. 231–232. ISBN 978-0-252-07089-1.
^ ab"MAX HELFMANS MUSIC GENIUS STILLED BY DEATH". B'nai B'rith Messenger. Los Angeles. August 16, 1963.
^Moddel, Philip; Neumann, Richard J. (1983). "Max Helfman: The Man and His Musical Legacy". Musica Judaica. 6 (1): 67–88. JSTOR 23687892.
^Davidson, Charles (February 1969). "A QUARTER CENTURY OF SYNAGOGUE MUSIC IN AMERICA". Journal of Synagogue Music. II (1). Cantors Assembly: 6.
^Strimple, Nick (2005). "12. United States". Choral music in the twentieth century. Pompton Plains, NJ: Amadeus. p. 272. ISBN 978-1-57467-122-3.
^Kligman, Mark (2021). "Chant in the Ashkenazic Tradition". In Diner, Hasia R. (ed.). The Oxford handbook of the Jewish diaspora. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 670. ISBN 978-0-19-755481-4.
^"MAX HELFMAN DIES; COMPOSER WAS 64". The New York Times. 13 August 1963.
^Holde, Artur (2021). "IV New Forces in our Time". Jews in Music From the Age of Enlightenment to the Mid-Twentieth Century. Newburyport: Philosophical Library/Open Road. ISBN 978-1-5040-6683-9.
^Edelman, Marsha Bryan (2007). Discovering Jewish Music. Jewish Publication Society. pp. 306–7. ISBN 978-0-8276-1027-9.
^Kahn, Eliott (2009). "Reclaiming American Judaism's Lost Legacy: The Art of Synagogue Music". Musica Judaica. 19: 205–218. JSTOR 26454535.
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