Yaacov Levanon [SEP] date of birth
Yaacov Levanon
Yaacov Levanon (originally Yaacov Bilansky) (1895–1965) was an Israeli Jewish musician and composer in the British Mandate of Palestine and later Israel.
Levanon was born in Korets, Ukraine, the son of a haskalah scholar from Novohrad-Volynskyy (Samuel Bilansky). He was trained at the conservatory in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. After serving in the Red Army he emigrated in 1919 to Palestine, where he established himself as a composer and music teacher. His opus includes music for operettas, films (including the
, a Hebrew novel by Yeroshua Perah
- "My Husband, Bar Kokhba" (2003), an English novel by Andrew Sanders
- "Knowledge Columns" (2014), an American rap song by Dopey Ziegler
- "Son Of A Star" (2015), song by Israeli metal band Desert
Another operetta on the subject of Bar Kokhba was written by the Russian-Jewish emigre composer Yaacov Bilansky Levanon in Palestine in the 1920s.
John Zorn's Masada Chamber Ensemble recorded an album called "