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Velvel Pasternak
The JMRC mourns the passing of Velvel Pasternak, scholar of Hassidic music and founder…
Milan Slavicky
Milan Slavický was a Czech composer, musicologist, and pedagogue. He came from a…
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Esther R. Warkov
Esther Warkov's seminal contributions to the study of Arab music and Arab-Jewish…
Meir Shimon Geshuri
Meir Shimon Geshuri (née Bruckner; April 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli…
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Samuel Naumbourg
Samuel Naumbourg was born in Dennelohe, Bavaria, groomed from a young age to continue…
Theodor Bikel
Born in Vienna, Austria and immigrated to Palestine with his parents at age 13. Studied…
Kumiko Yayama
Research areas: Arabic music and piyutim.
See also: "Home from Japan".
Yizhak Edel
Yitzhak Edel was born in Warsaw in 1896 to a Hassidic family. His grandfather, a…
Zecharia Plavin
Born in Vilnius in 1956, studied at the Ciurlionis School of Arts and Vilnius…
Zawel (Zevulun) Kwartin
Kwartin was born in Novo-arkhangelsk, Ukraine, and was first exposed to the…