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'''Tzipora Jochsberger''' (, ; 27 December 1920 – 29 October 2017) was a music teacher and founder of the Hebrew Arts School for Music and Dance, now known as the [[Kaufman Music Center]].
==Early life and education==
Tzipora Jochsberger was born in [[Leutershausen]], in [[Bavaria]] ([[Germany]]) as '''Hilda Jochsberger'''. Her father Nathan was a cattle dealer, and her mother Sofie ([[née]] Enslein) was a homemaker. Sofie bought her daughter a piano when she was 5 years old, and by 8 she was having private tutoring in [[Ansbach]]. Being one of the few [[Jewish]] families in the area, and amid [[Anti-Jewish legislation in pre-war Nazi Germany|growing antisemitic legislation]] in [[Nazi Germany]], the Jochsbergers faced attacks and faced restrictions on education.<ref name="Sandomir">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
She later moved to the [[Jewish Teachers Seminary]] in [[Würzburg]]. As well as her musical studies, she began to learn [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] and sewing. However, while she was away, Nazi violence against Jews increased. Her parents hid from an attack and were forced to sell their house and move to [[Nuremberg]]. At the seminary, a classmate of Jochsberger's told her of an audition for the [[Palestine Conservatory of Music]] in [[Jerusalem]]. Wishing to follow in her classmate's footsteps, and seeing this as an escape from Nazi persecution, Jochsberger asked her father to take her to [[Berlin]] and auditioned on the piano for Emil Hauser, the conservatory's founder, playing from ''[[Songs Without Words]]'' by [[Felix Mendelssohn]].<ref name="Sandomir" />
She left Germany in 1939 by taking a train from [[Munich]] to [[Trieste]] (Italy) and then travelled by boat to [[Haifa]] (Palestine<!-- Israel was not a state yet -->). From Haifa, Jochsberger's mother consequently settled in Jerusalem, and taught music there. She encouraged her family to emigrate there with her, but they did not move.<ref name="Sandomir" /> In 1944, her parents were killed in the [[Gas chamber#Nazi Germany|gas chambers]] of [[Auschwitz concentration camp]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==Career==
She taught music in Israel<!-- Israel became a state; no longer Palestine --> until 1950, when she decided to immigrate to [[New York City]]. In 1952, she became the founding director of a [[Manhattan]]-based music school, the Hebrew Arts School for Music and Dance, which became "an important New York institution where music, art, dance and theater are taught to some 450 children and - in evening and extension classes - to between 600 and 700 adults.<ref name="Page">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> a position she held for 33 years until her retirement in 1985. She also received [[Master's degree|master's]] and [[doctoral degree]]s in sacred music at the [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]].<ref name="Sandomir" />
The school was founded as an educational and cultural institution to keep the tradition of Jewish music and the arts alive to the next generation. Jochsberger told ''[[The New York Times]]'': "I felt that New Yorkers were estranged from their Jewishness. Only those who studied in Hebrew schools had any relationship with the religion, and the rest had no idea what being Jewish meant. It seemed important, to me, to find a way of creating an emotional attachment between these people and their heritage, and I knew that the way to reach the soul was through music."<ref name="Page" />
After her retirement, Jochsberger returned to Israel, where she founded the [[Israel Music Heritage Project]] and was the executive producer of a 10-part documentary series, ''[[A People and Its Music]]'', about the Jewish communities in Israel that had their roots in Eastern Europe, Northern Africa and other parts of the Middle East.<ref name="Sandomir" />
==References==
[[Category:Jewish educators]]
[[Category:Women music educators]]
[[Category:Israeli music educators]]
[[Category:1920 births]]
[[Category:2017 deaths]]
==Early life and education==
Tzipora Jochsberger was born in [[Leutershausen]], in [[Bavaria]] ([[Germany]]) as '''Hilda Jochsberger'''. Her father Nathan was a cattle dealer, and her mother Sofie ([[née]] Enslein) was a homemaker. Sofie bought her daughter a piano when she was 5 years old, and by 8 she was having private tutoring in [[Ansbach]]. Being one of the few [[Jewish]] families in the area, and amid [[Anti-Jewish legislation in pre-war Nazi Germany|growing antisemitic legislation]] in [[Nazi Germany]], the Jochsbergers faced attacks and faced restrictions on education.<ref name="Sandomir">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
She later moved to the [[Jewish Teachers Seminary]] in [[Würzburg]]. As well as her musical studies, she began to learn [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] and sewing. However, while she was away, Nazi violence against Jews increased. Her parents hid from an attack and were forced to sell their house and move to [[Nuremberg]]. At the seminary, a classmate of Jochsberger's told her of an audition for the [[Palestine Conservatory of Music]] in [[Jerusalem]]. Wishing to follow in her classmate's footsteps, and seeing this as an escape from Nazi persecution, Jochsberger asked her father to take her to [[Berlin]] and auditioned on the piano for Emil Hauser, the conservatory's founder, playing from ''[[Songs Without Words]]'' by [[Felix Mendelssohn]].<ref name="Sandomir" />
She left Germany in 1939 by taking a train from [[Munich]] to [[Trieste]] (Italy) and then travelled by boat to [[Haifa]] (Palestine<!-- Israel was not a state yet -->). From Haifa, Jochsberger's mother consequently settled in Jerusalem, and taught music there. She encouraged her family to emigrate there with her, but they did not move.<ref name="Sandomir" /> In 1944, her parents were killed in the [[Gas chamber#Nazi Germany|gas chambers]] of [[Auschwitz concentration camp]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==Career==
She taught music in Israel<!-- Israel became a state; no longer Palestine --> until 1950, when she decided to immigrate to [[New York City]]. In 1952, she became the founding director of a [[Manhattan]]-based music school, the Hebrew Arts School for Music and Dance, which became "an important New York institution where music, art, dance and theater are taught to some 450 children and - in evening and extension classes - to between 600 and 700 adults.<ref name="Page">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> a position she held for 33 years until her retirement in 1985. She also received [[Master's degree|master's]] and [[doctoral degree]]s in sacred music at the [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]].<ref name="Sandomir" />
The school was founded as an educational and cultural institution to keep the tradition of Jewish music and the arts alive to the next generation. Jochsberger told ''[[The New York Times]]'': "I felt that New Yorkers were estranged from their Jewishness. Only those who studied in Hebrew schools had any relationship with the religion, and the rest had no idea what being Jewish meant. It seemed important, to me, to find a way of creating an emotional attachment between these people and their heritage, and I knew that the way to reach the soul was through music."<ref name="Page" />
After her retirement, Jochsberger returned to Israel, where she founded the [[Israel Music Heritage Project]] and was the executive producer of a 10-part documentary series, ''[[A People and Its Music]]'', about the Jewish communities in Israel that had their roots in Eastern Europe, Northern Africa and other parts of the Middle East.<ref name="Sandomir" />
==References==
[[Category:Jewish educators]]
[[Category:Women music educators]]
[[Category:Israeli music educators]]
[[Category:1920 births]]
[[Category:2017 deaths]]
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