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Ghizela Suliteanu
… Romanian ethnomusicologist who collected a great deal of Ashkenazi and Sephardic folk and religious music in Romania. She researched in other fields of ethnomusicology as well, such as: folk music of Tatars and Turkish communities in Romania and …
Victor Tunkel
… In Memoriam The Jewish Music Music Research Centre bemoans the loss of Victor Tunkel, … extensive sections on Biblical cantillation, Jewish folk music of various kinds, Jewish musicological research, …
Efraim Yaakov
… me at least, he was also an ethnographer and an excellent folklore researcher. I remember once sending him some documentation and he responded, 'It's folklore, not history.' He may have meant negativity, but … and especially recruited people on the subject of the music of the Jews of southern Yemen ... '. Sources (in …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … The author recommended that Geshuri free himself from the “folkloristic-scientific tendencies” of his radio lectures in … including verses from the Haftarah and other “folk or synagogue songs that the Hassidim have no interest …
Leib Glanz
… gestures from many different genres, including romantic music, Israeli folk songs, and Jewish liturgical music from communities throughout the Diaspora. While …
Leon Algazi
… Algazi was born in Iepuresti, Romania in 1890. He studied music in Vienna and Paris and graduated from the Ecole … he held for many years. His interest in Jewish music and folklore was sparked by early studies with musicologist … . In 1958 he published an important collection of Sephardic folk songs and texts, Chants Séphardis , under the auspices …
David Nowakowsky
… concerts comprised of his own liturgical and paraliturgical music, with instrumental accompaniment. As a result of this … his work at the Brody Synagogue, Nowakowsky also taught music at several local music schools, later becoming a … arrangment of the poem was later replaced by a popular folk tune, which is the melody for the National Israeli …
Uri Aharon
… researcher, author of two books and many articles in music, plays classical, Jewish and folk music on the flute. For forty-two years he was a senior …
Abraham Goldfaden
… contact with the Broder Singers, who were active in Yiddish folk song performance. It was there that Goldfaden began to … his songs, as well as other popular Jewish and secular music. The initial performances of these musical theater … wide range of sources including synagogue melodies, Jewish folksongs, Eastern European folk and popular music, and …
Theodor Bikel
… as well as in television shows and in movies. As a folk singer he sang songs that spanned over 20 languages, … Singer … Actor … Broadway … Theater … Television … Movies … Folk … Songs … Folksong … Theodor Bikel …