sentences:  After the new Nazi government had widely banned Jewish performers, artists and scientists from public stages and lecterns, Rykestraße Synagogue opened for their concerts and lectures organised by Kulturbund Deutscher Juden or benefit performances by "Jüdisches Winterhilfswerk" (Jewish winter aid endowment) in favour of poor Jews, who had been excluded from government benefits.On 16 February 1934 the synagogal choir under Kurt Burchard (1877–1942, Auschwitz) enacted for the first time the new Friday night liturgy that had been composed by Jakob Dymont (1881–1956), choirmaster at Adass Jisroel synagogue.Dymont composed it along the melodies of chazzanut following the Nussach.