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Abraham Wolf Binder
… a family of cantors and into a world enriched by synagogue music and Jewish folklore. He was a member of his father’s synagogue choir … melodies). He continued his involvement in Jewish choral music, forming the Hadassah Choral Union in 1916 and the …
Yehezkiel Braun
… in Israel , is most known for his often-performed choral music. A 2001 Israel Prize laureate, he is probably the most … was sharpened by studies under Boskovich (who supported folklorism à la Bartók) in the Tel-Aviv Academy of Music … 1982 as a professor, until 1990. Braun’s attraction for folklore is consistent throughout his life, although he …
Abraham Eilam-Amzallag
… Aliyah. He studied at the Tel Aviv Teachers' College of Music and the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. He studied playing the flute with Uri … at the University of Haifa. He lectures in the fields of folklore and musicology at universities in Israel. …
Gershon Ephros
… grandfather, Cantor Moses Fromberg. He received his first musical training while being part of his grandfather's … 1918, he was appointed cantor of Congregation Beth El in Norfolk, Virginia, and later became cantor at Congregation Beth … 1957. Apart fom his cantorial career, Ephros taught Jewish music in Hebrew schools in New York and at the Hebrew Union …
Walter Zev Feldman
… University. Researcher on Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music, as well as the literature of the Ottoman and Central … research and published articles on classical and Sufi music in Turkey, the music and poetry of epic in Uzbekistan … Khevrisa: European Klezmer Music was issued by Smithsonian-Folkways in 2000. He is currently preparing at the JMRC a …
Gila Flam
… Ph. D., University of California Los Angeles, Department of Music, 1988. Her thesis: Singing for Survival: Songs of the … the University of Illinois Press in 1992. Director of the Music Department of the Jewish National and University Library. Research interests: Yiddish folk song with emphasis on the Holocaust period. Currently …
Edith (Esther) Gerson Kiwi
… with Robert Lachman of the Jerusalem Archive for Oriental music, and dedicated herself to teaching and to ethnomusicological research. She worked closely with Lachmann as … which was then part of the greater Palestine Institute of Folklore and Ethnology. In 1963 she founded the Museum of …
David Halperin
… Ph.D. in Musicology from Tel Aviv University. Chairman of the Department of Musicology at Tel Aviv University until his retirement in … project of cataloguing the Beregovski collection of Yiddish folk music. (*The photo is taken from shira-ovedet website) …
Andre Hajdu
… after the war at the prestigious Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. There he studied under Endre Szervánszky … a deep interest in ethnography, the relation between folklore and contemporary composition and in pedagogy. He … in Jewish topics, not necessarily by employing or quoting folkloric themes that he researched, but rather by …
Rivka Havassy
… studies, with a focus on Ladino traditional oral poetry; musical and folk culture of the Sephardi community of Thessaloniki; contacts between Ladino folk poetry and the Greek culture; early recordings of …