Cantor Shmuel Barzilai

• Cantor Shmuel Barzilai Official Website
• Chassidic Ecstasy in Music, By Shmuel Barzilai

Shmuel Barzilai (born June 3, 1957, born in Jerusalem, Israel), is the chief cantor of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien. Barzilai has a lyrical tenor voice, and studied under cantor Moshe Stern in the Tel Aviv Institute for Cantorial Art. He was in the first graduating class of the Institute, which was established under former Tel Aviv mayor Shlomo Lahat. Barzilai has served as the chief cantor in Vienna since 1992, and frequently tours throughout Europe.

He is a son of Rav Cantor Shlomo Barzilai, a great Modzitz fan, and Frida Lea Barzilai (A"H). Rav Mordechai Barzilai is his brother. . . . continued

Shmuel Barzilai, Cantor, composer was born in 1957 as a Seventh-generation Jerusalemite. Since 1992, he has serve as the Chief Cantor in the Jewish community of Vienna, Austria. He is a graduate of the Be'er Yaakov, Knesset Hizkiyahu and Hebron Yeshivas, and studied at the Rabbinic Seminary of Givatayim. Cantor Barzilai is a graduate of Tel Aviv Cantorial Institute, in Israel. He has receive advanced degrees from the University of Vienna, Austria with a B.A. and M.A. from the Department of Philosophy in Jewish Studies. [www.peterlang.de Source]

Discography

• • "Das Lied der Lieder; Festgesänge des Wiener Stadttempels", Jüdisches Museum Wien, ÖRF (1993)
• • "Schir Zion" (composed by Salomon Sulzer), Jüdisches Museum Wien, ORF (1996)
• • "Best Chasidic" (1996)
• • "Live in Concert: אב הרחמים"
• • "Shalom" (1999; with Hanan Bar Sela (חנן בַּר סלע), Arie Braun (אריה בְּראון); jacket design by Dvora Barzilai[1]
• • "Wiener Sängerknaben & Oberkantor Shmuel Barzilai", ORF (2000)
• • "The Symphony of Prayer; סימְפוֹניה שֶׁל תְפילה", ORF (2003; conducting by Elli Jaffe)
• Literary works[edit]
• • "Die Kantilationen des Oberkantors Abraham Daniel Adler (1916-2003)" ("Cantillation of Abraham D. Adler"), Martin Czernin (editor), with Christina Haydn-Koch/Robert Singer, Thomas Dombrowski; Peter Lang, Frankfurt (July 2006), ISBN 3-631-38947-7
• • Musik und Ekstase (Hitlahavut) im Chassidismus ("Music and Ecstasy (Hebrew: הִתְלַהֲבוּת‎) in Hassidism"); Peter Lang, Frankfurt (August 2007); ISBN 3-631-55666-7
• • Music as The Drive and Manifestation of Chassidic Ecstasy (Hitlahavut); From Hebrew: Seree (Cohen) Zohar; (Israel, January 2009) Source

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Great grandson of Yehudit Eisenbach (Lerner) from the Esteemed Wahrman/Lerman Family

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