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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 …
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 … love the synagogal modes and “Zemiroth” as well as Jewish Folk-Songs. At home I received an orthodox education and … are of interest to the scholars. 2) The Jewish song is a folk-art, created by the people. It has no art-song, and no …
Israel J. Katz
… Armistead and Joseph H. Silverman (d. 1989) on the series Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews. Katz served as editor of Ethnomusicology (1970–72); for the Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council, he was editor (1977–70), coeditor (with …
Robert Lachmann
… It was there that Lachmann was first exposed to non-Western music and folklore, and he began working on transcriptions of the … the seeds for his doctorate research of North African music. After the war, Lachmann began to study musicology …
Leo Levi
… first scholar to devote research to the Italian Jewish oral musical traditions. However, his role in the field of Jewish … National Radio as a partner in the documentation of Italy's folklore. Between 1954 and 1959 he contacted almost fifty … liturgical repertoires, as well as Jewish liturgical and folk songs across the Mediterranean and in central and …
Menashe Ravina
… Born in Pereyaslavl, Ukraine. Studied music in Germany, immigrated to Palestine in 1924 where he became very active in the local music scene. Ravina published books and articles on different aspects of Jewish music and composed Hebrew folk songs, children's songs, and several piano pieces. …
Joel Engel
… written by James Loeffler . … Composer, arranger, music editor, a member of the St. Petersburg School of … and one of the founders of the Society for Jewish Folk Music … Joel Engel …
Solomon Rosowsky
… Law at the University of Kiev , Rosowsky went on to study music at the St. Petersburg Imperial Conservatory under … He helped to found the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music in 1908 and served as the musical director of the … continue the work of the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music in Palestine. It was also during this time that …