Nadene Goldfoot
Throughout history, Jews, a people making up 0.02% of the world population, have been trailblazers in countless professional fields: medicine, music, cinema, sports, and much more. The Genesis Prize celebrates Jewish talent and achievement by honoring individuals for their professional accomplishments, commitment to Jewish values and contribution to improving the world. From time to time – in honor of our Laureates - The Genesis Prize Foundation produces films highlighting the significant impact Jews have had on a variety of professions. The Genesis Prize Foundation’s “Jews in…” short video series has already been viewed by hundreds of thousands.
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The prize was founded in 2012 with a $100 million endowment from five Russian philanthropists: Mikhail Fridman, Pyotr Aven, German Khan, Stan Polovets, and Alexander Knaster. The prize is under the administration of the Genesis Prize Foundation, in partnership with the Jewish Agency for Israel.
In 2020, the Foundation opened the selection process to online voting and invited the public to nominate and vote for the 2021 Genesis Prize Laureate. Close to two hundred thousand Jews on six continents participated in the voting. The final selection of the Laureate remains with the two committees.
Jews in Music
The Genesis Prize Foundation created "Jews in Music" to honor outstanding achievements by Jewish individuals in music throughout history, including Leonard Cohen, Itzhak Perlman, Carole King, Vladimir Vysotsky, Idan Raichel, Martha Argerich, Paul Simon, Evgeny Kissin, Billy Joel, Adam Levine, Drake, and more.
Yentl is a 1983 American romantic musical drama film directed, co-written, co-produced by, and starring American entertainer Barbra Streisand. It is based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPO6KyIYst4
The film incorporates humor and music to tell the story of an Ashkenazi Jewish girl in Poland who decides to dress and live like a boy so that she can receive an education in Talmudic Law after her father dies. The film's musical score and songs, composed by Michel Legrand, with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, include the songs "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" and "The Way He Makes Me Feel", both sung by Streisand. The film received the Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and the Golden Globe Awards for Best Motion Picture—Musical or Comedy and Best Director for Streisand, making her the first woman to have won Best Director at the Golden Globes.
Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand is an American singer and actress. With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment, and is among the few performers awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. She is 80, born April 24, 1942 in Brooklyn, NY. To me she's ageless. She is my favorite every year. Barbra Streisand was one of the most successful performers of the twentieth century. When her Jewish looks made it hard to break into show business, she got her start in the underground gay bar scene. She won critical acclaim for her Broadway performance in I Can Get It for You Wholesale in 1963, released her chart-topping first album in 1964, and played fellow Jewish comedian Fanny Brice in Funny Girl in 1968. Streisand has recorded a number of successful albums, earning Oscars, Emmys, Grammys, a special Tony, and a Peabody among her many accolades. Her directorial debut was Yentl, and she continued to direct and produce movies while maintaining her career as a performer. Through the Streisand Foundation, she funds charities ranging from gender equality and gay rights to environmental protection.
Carole King Klein (born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) in Manhattan, New York City, to Jewish parents Eugenia (née Cammer), a teacher, and Sidney N. Klein, a firefighter. King's parents met in an elevator in 1936 at Brooklyn College, where her father was a chemistry major and her mother was an English and drama major. She is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who has been active since 1958, initially as one of the staff songwriters at the Brill Building and later as a solo artist. Regarded as one of the most significant and influential musicians of all time, King is the most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century in the US, having written or co-written 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100. King also wrote 61 hits that charted in the UK, making her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts between 1962 and 2005. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=JOpNjHsXwzk&list=OLAK5uy_moVH2ipKvkBa7g6jf1WQUfaLgnR4O1zXY
María Martha Argerich, (born 5 June 1941) is an Argentinian classical concert pianist. She is widely considered to be one of the greatest pianists of all time. Her maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire, who settled in Colonia Villa Clara in Argentina's Entre Ríos Province, one of the colonies established by Baron de Hirsch and the Jewish Colonization Association. The provenance of the name Argerich is Catalonia. In 1990, Argerich was diagnosed with malignant melanoma. After treatment, the cancer went into remission, but there was a recurrence in 1995, eventually metastasizing to her lungs and lymph nodes. Following an experimental treatment at the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica pioneered by oncologist Donald Morton, Argerich's cancer went into remission again. In gratitude, Argerich performed a Carnegie Hall recital benefiting the institute. As of 2021, Argerich remains cancer-free.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUTFVNAa2_E
Sammy Davis Jr. converted to Judaism, known to us with his singing and dancing. Samuel George Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American singer, dancer, actor, comedian, film producer and television director., One day on a golf course with Jack Benny, he was asked what his handicap was. "Handicap?" he asked. "Talk about handicap. I'm a one-eyed Negro who's Jewish." This was to become a signature comment, recounted in his autobiography and in many articles. He survived a terrible car accident and spoke about it with a Jewish chaplain in the hospital. But after learning about Judaism, he felt Jews and Black people shared a similar history of oppression. Over the years, he studied more about the religion and eventually converted. Sammy is unforgettable, always on my list every year.
Music has been an integral part of our life. Our prayers are sung; first by our Cantors and then by us. Our alarm system of gathering the people has been music blown on a ram's horn. You will be surprised at the volume of music our people have produced. The Jewish tempo of the minor key has even caressed a few Christian holidays as well, for our writers can't help but feel musical tunes and produce them during these periods. We have lots more musicians that we haven't heard of.
Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah (Live In London) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrLk4vdY28Q
Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death, and romantic relationships. His parents were Marsha Klonitsky, Nathan Cohen; He died at 82 in 2016. Wikipedia
Itzhak Perlman is an Israeli-American violinist, music teacher and conductor. He is renowned for his profound musical knowledge and skills and is treasured by audiences around the globe. For him, creating music is a way of expressing himself. Perlman has performed worldwide, including at events like the presidential inauguration of President Obama and a State Dinner at the White House honouring His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Now 76, he was born in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel August 31, 1945 before it became a state . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rT8KC10ErA
Adam Noah Levine is an American singer and musician, who is the lead vocalist of the pop rock band Maroon 5. Levine began his musical career in 1994 with the band Kara's Flowers, of which he was the lead vocalist and guitarist.From 2011 to 2019, Levine served as a coach on NBC's reality talent show The Voice. Levine's father and maternal grandfather were Jewish, while his maternal grandmother was a Protestant. Levine considers himself Jewish; however, according to The Jewish Chronicle, he is spiritual but not religious. He also attributes his mother's idols – Simon & Garfunkel, Fleetwood Mac, and The Beatles – to shaping his musical style, calling them "a huge part of my upbringing.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL4uhaQ58Rk
Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky, was a Soviet singer-songwriter, poet, and actor who had an immense and enduring effect on Soviet culture. He became widely known for his unique singing style and for his lyrics, which featured social and political commentary in often humorous street-jargon, getting on a Russian stamp, so popular. He was born January 25, 1938 and died July 25, 1980 in Moscow, Russia at 42. His musical style still influences Russians today. His father, Semyon Volfovich (Vladimirovich) (1915–1997), was Jewish, a colonel in the Soviet army, originally from Kiev. His father was actually a Jew from Kiev, Ukraine.
Vladimir's mother, Nina Maksimovna, (née Seryogina, 1912–2003) was Russian, and worked as a German language translator. Vysotsky's family lived in a Moscow communal flat in harsh conditions, and had serious financial difficulties.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6P-sl5BkAc
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I'm going to throw in one of my own, Victor Sharpe, from England, born in 1942 in London, who lives right here in Portland, Oregon and is my 4th to remote cousin found by DNA testing. Now we are real phone cousins during COVID. Victor had his own radio show in our city, and has his own band, Special Reserve. He plays at the coast quite often, playing on either his clarinet, flute or 3 saxophones.
These are but a few of our musical talents. Be sure to listen to the compilation of many of our outstanding musicians.
Resource:
Thanks to Gerard Robbins who sent me this gensisprize address.
https://www.genesisprize.org/jewish-accomplishment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yentl_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_King
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy_Davis_Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Levine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vysotsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Argerich
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/itzhak-perlman-1682.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_Prize
https://hazon.org/commit-to-change/holidays/rosh-hashanah/shofar/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwwJuVBhCAARIsAOPwGAQ7hbIQsv9XbdJsYb2-BfTnMA3UySXaIl6XbTN3Wx2NeSI-KKggvS4aApv9EALw_wcB
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