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Nachum Heiman
Nachum Heiman | |
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Born | (1934-05-06)May 6, 1934 Riga, Latvia |
Died | August 17, 2016(2016-08-17) (aged 82) Kfar Saba, Israel |
Genres | Folk |
Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
Instrument(s) | Piano, accordion, harmonica |
Years active | 1951–2016 |
Website | https://nachumheiman.co.il/ |
Musical artist
Nachum Heiman (Hebrew: נחום היימן; May 6, 1934 – August 17, 2016)[1] was an Israeli composer and musician.
Some of the over 1,000 songs he composed[2][3][4] have become classics of Israeli folk music.[5]
Biography
Nachum (Nakhche) Heiman was born in Riga, Latvia in 1934 to a musical family that immigrated to Mandatory Palestine when he was five years old.
As a child he began playing the piano.
Born in 1875 in Lygumai (present day Lithuania), he studied in Telz and Slabodka and was considered one of the illuyim of his era.
After becoming ill with polio at the age of nine, he switched to playing the accordion and the harmonica. He was hospitalized for three and a half years in an iron lung until he recovered. At age 14, follow