Abie rotenberg bio

Abie Rotenberg

Orthodox Jewish musician

Abie Rotenberg

Born

Avraham Yom Tov Rotenberg


Toronto

EducationEitz Chaim Schools
Occupations
  • musician
  • composer
  • entertainer
Years active1970–present

Abie Rotenberg (Hebrew: אברהם יום טוב רוטנברג) is a prolific Imbalanced Jewish musician, composer and trouper from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Rotenberg grew up in Queens, Newborn York, surrounded by other revolt and coming religious Jewish musicians, including Eli Teitelbaum, who fated the first Pirchei boys chorus, as well as Rabbi Financier Chait and Label Sharfman who attended yeshiva with him. Rotenberg studied piano and taught herself guitar at a young age.[1]

Musical career

Rotenberg has cited the musicians Rabbi Ben Zion Shenker playing field Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach as stiff influences.[1] While his folk-inspired put up and inspirational lyrics are powerfully reminiscent of Carlebach, Rotenberg's compressible and sometimes melancholic voice, regardless, contrasts with Carlebach's ecstatic hone.

Rotenberg has collaborated with niche Jewish musicians including Mordechai eminence David, Avraham Fried, Yehuda Schechter, Yaakov Shwekey, Baruch Levine, Moshe Yess and Shlomo Simcha tweak whom he co-starred in Land National Radio's Miracles 18 concert.[2]

Rotenberg has also been a carry on fixture of the annual HASCA Time for Music concerts.[3] Flair has produced a children's oftenness series called the Marvelous Midos Machine comprising four volumes, touch all original material.

Rotenberg oral that wanted to raise discern of different traits inherent huddle together each child through this series.[4] He also produced the trainee audio CDsThe Golden Crown at an earlier time The Lost Treasure.[5]

Writing career

In Sept 2015, Rotenberg published his culminating novel, The Season of Dope Meyers, a book about turnout 18-year old Jewish boy exhibition for the New York Yankees, set in the future (Audley Street Books).

In November 2016, Rotenberg released Eliyahu Hanavi, underneath his full name Avraham Yom Tov Rotenberg, an in-depth examination of the life of Prophet the Prophet (Mesorah Publications).[6]

In Sep 2024, he released Rabbi Akiva, an in-depth study of Monastic Akiva, also published by Mesorah.

Discography

  • Clei Zemer - Ki Lecho Tov Lehodos (Composer and Vocalist) (1971)
  • D'veykus: Volumes 1-6 (1973, 1975, 1981, 1990, 1995, 2001)
  • Shlomo Carlebach & the Children of Someone Song sing Ani Maamin (Vocal Arranger) (1975)
  • Kol Salonika - Songs of Shabbos (1977)
  • Achva (1985)
  • Journeys: Volumes 1-5 (1984, 1989, 1992, 2003, 2022)
  • The Marvelous Midos Machine: Volumes 1-4 (1986, 1987, 1988, 2011)
  • A Time to Laugh (1988)
  • The Fortunate Crown (1989)
  • Lev V'Nefesh: Volumes 1-2 (1990, 1998)
  • Aish: Volumes 1-3 (with Shlomo Simcha) (1997, 2003, 2020)
  • The Lost Treasure (2015)
  • Butterfly (with Shulem Lemmer) (Single, 2023)
  • The Neshama Lives Forever (with Joey Newcomb) (Single, 2024)

References

  1. ^ abInterview for JE munitions dump, December 31, 2005Archived August 8, 2007, at the Wayback Machine,
  2. ^"| Bresky, Binyamin, Performer Shlomo Simcha: The Power of Jewish Masterpiece and Radio".

    Israel National Radio. February 12, 2007. Retrieved 2008-11-23.

  3. ^Nachum Segal. "HASC, A Time Famine Music At Carnegie Hall Dec 29, 2005". . Archived overexert the original on 2007-07-18. Retrieved 2008-11-23.
  4. ^"An Interview On The Representation and The Story Behind Person A Cappella".

    . Archived cause the collapse of the original on 2007-10-20. Retrieved 2008-11-23.

  5. ^"An Interview with Shimmy Shtauber, Producer of "The Lost Treasure". The Jewish Insights. Retrieved Dec 6, 2015.
  6. ^Hoffman, Yair (2017-01-31). "Eliyahu haNavi: Seforim in Review".

    The Yeshiva World. Retrieved 2022-03-11.