David Kamhi (Sarajevo, 1936 — Sarajevo, March 12, 2021), Jewish theologian, Sarajevo hazan and violinist.[1][2]
David Kamhi | |
|---|---|
| Personal | |
| Born | 1936 Sarajevo |
| Died | 12 March 2021 Sarajevo |
| Resting place | Bare cemetery |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Nationality | Bosnian |
| Home town | Sarajevo |
| Senior posting | |
| Previous post | Sarajevo hazan |
Biography
editDavid Kamhi was born in Sarajevo in 1936. In his hometown, he graduated from the First Boys' Gymnasium, then the Secondary School of Music, and graduated and received his master's degree from the Music Academy in Sarajevo. He spent several years at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, and in Rome at the Santa Cecilia Academy of Music. He was a professor of violin, viola and methodology at the Music Academy in Sarajevo. Had solo concerts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav region and Europe. For twenty years, he was the president of the Association of Music Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the period 1993 - 1995, he was a member of the Council of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina for foreign affairs, and an adviser at the Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Spain in 1995 and 1996. In the period from 1992 to 1997, he was the vice-president of the Jewish cultural and humanitarian society La Benevolencija, of the Jewish Municipality of Sarajevo, and the editor-in-chief of the newsletter Bilten. From 1992 to October 2016, he was the hazan of the Sarajevo Synagogue.[3][4][5]
He died in Sarajevo on March 12, 2021.
References
edit- ^ "Kamhi – sefardska porodica umjetnika, učenjaka i rabina". Al Jazeera Balkans (in Bosnian). 2018-05-04. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
- ^ "USC Shoah Foundation Institute testimony of David Kamhi - Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum". collections.ushmm.org. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
- ^ "David Kamhi: U ideji su Bosne spas i izlaz". STAV (in Bosnian). 2017-06-01. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
- ^ "Muzej književnosti: Predavanje Davida Kamhija o jeziku sefardskih Jevreja". Radio Sarajevo. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
- ^ "1995/04/24 16:01 Intervju David Kamhi". aimpress.ch. Archived from the original on 12 October 2020. Retrieved 2018-07-31.