Max Helfman

Max Helfman (1901-1963) was a Polish-American Jewish composer, choral conductor, and educator.[1][2][3] He is most notable for directing the Brandeis-Bardin Institute for seventeen years.[1] He was also well known for socialist and pro-Zionist causes and affiliations.[1]

Early life

Helfman was born to Radzyń Podlaski, where his father taught and led a choir.[1] The family moved to New York's Lower East Side in 1909.[1]

Career

Helfman directed or led the following choirs:

  • Temple Israel in New York City (1928), succeeded Zavel Zilberts[1]
  • Park Avenue Synagogue (Cantor, 1928-1940)[1]
  • Curtis Institute of Music 1929-1932, Fellowship[1]
  • Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus (1937-1940) affiliated with Jewish Workers Musical Alliance[1]
  • Brandeis Camp, Winterdale Pennsylvania (1947-1951)[1]
  • Brandeis Arts Institute (1947-1952)[1]
  • College of Jewish Studies in Los Angeles (Director, Department of Sacred Music, 1954-1957)[1]
  • University of Judaism in Los Angeles (Dean of College of Fine Arts, 1958-?) [1]
gollark: The anarchocommunist-or-whatever idea of everyone magically working together for the common good and planning everything perfectly and whatnot also sounds nice but is unachievable.
gollark: I mean, theoretically there are some upsides with central planning, like not having the various problems with dealing with externalities and tragedies of the commons (how do you pluralize that) and competition-y issues of our decentralized market systems, but it also... doesn't actually work very well.
gollark: I do, but that isn't really what "communism" is as much as a nice thing people say it would do.
gollark: I don't consider it even a particularly admirable goal. At least not the centrally planned version (people seem to disagree a lot on the definitions).
gollark: I don't think that makes much sense either honestly. I mean, the whole point of... political systems... is that they organize people in some way. If they don't work on people in ways you could probably point out very easily theoretically, they are not very good.

References
  1. "Milken Archive of Jewish Music - People - Max Helfman". www.milkenarchive.org. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
  2. "Review of Max Helfman: Di Naye Hagode | Jewish Virtual Library". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
  3. "Emanu-El | Max Helfman". www.emanuelnyc.org. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
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