Alexander Uriah Boskowicz

A composer, conductor, music critic, and painter, Alexander Uriah Boskowicz was born in Kolozsvár, Austria-Hungary (now Cluj, Romania) to a Hasidic family. He studied piano in Vienna and Paris. In 1938, Boskowicz was invited to conduct the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, and he moved to Tel Aviv. He was a founder of the Israel Academy of Music and served as a music critic for the newspaper Haaretz. Boskowicz was awarded the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Prize in 1960 and the Henrietta Szold Prize in 1961.