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Irene Heskes
… Born in Brooklyn, New York. Was a Music researcher who specialized in Jewish music. Her … collection of Yiddish theater music. She published many articles and books concerning secular and sacred Jewish … in Music , The Resource Book of Jewish Music , Yiddish-American Popular Songs, 1895–1950 , and Passport to Jewish …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He continued … of the Yemenite community in Palestine. Idelsohn was particularly interested in this community because he … funds for the 5 th and partly for the 6 th volume, but the American Council of Learned Societies decided to grant me a …
Ruth Katz
… Ruth Katz is an Israeli musicologist, a pioneer of academic musicology in Israel, … of Jerusalem. She has been a corresponding Member of the American Musicological Society since 2011. She was named … the general historiography and sociology of culture and art, to aesthetics, and to ethnography and anthropology. …
Israel J. Katz
… University (1974–75); York College (CUNY), chairing the Department of Fine and Performing Arts; and Hebrew Union … of the Sephardic Jews. Katz served as editor of Ethnomusicology (1970–72); for the Yearbook of the International … Arbie Orenstein (2001– ). He was a founding member of the American Society for Jewish Music (1974) and served as …
David de Sola Pool
… de Sola Pool, “My Spiritual Autobiography,” in Thirteen Americans , Louis Finkelstein ed., Institute for Religious …
Boaz Tarsi
… by institutions and performers such as the New York Chamber Music Society, the Israeli Sinfonietta, NYC 92nd street … Gary Karr, the Jerusalem Theater, Tel Aviv Museum, the American Jewish Music Society, the Jewish Museum in Philadelphia, San Diego Jewish Art Festival, Musicians Accord, New York City’s “The …
James Loeffler
… Ph.D. Columbia University, (2006), Dissertation: 'The Most Musical Nation: Jews, Culture and Nationalism in the Late … Director, Vice-academic co-chair, Jewish Music Forum of the American Society for Jewish Music (New York); Research … (Washington, DC). Research interests: History of Jewish art music; Russian Jewish composers; music in Yiddish …
Samuel Adler
… Massachusetts. There the young Samuel Adler displayed his musical talents at an early age. He became his father’s … including 5 operas, 6 symphonies, 17 concerti, 8 string quartets, 5 oratorios and many other orchestral, band, chamber … Five Sephardic Choruses (SMR Bresler Collection) … American composer, conductor, author, and professor … …
Eric Mandell
… Mandell passed away in Philadelphia on February 6, 1988. Musically gifted since his youth, he trained under prominent … his precious collection behind. In June 1941 he reached American soil and joined Har Zion Temple in Philadelphia. … in regrouping his music collection. After the war he started to recover his own materials while purchasing new ones …
James W. McKinnon
… James William McKinnon was an American musicologist most known for his work in the fields of … chant. McKinnon published more than one hundred articles in music journals and reference books. … …