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Joseph Dorfman
… as artistic director of the International Festivals of Jewish Art Music, initiated in 1992. As a composer, … works, cantatas and oratorios. Dorfman researched the Jewish musical tradition of Eastern Europe, focusing on the work of the Society of Jewish Folk Music . As part of his research, he found lost …
Marsha Bryan Edelman
… at Gratz College. A graduate of Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, she holds degrees in music, Jewish music education, Jewish music and Jewish studies. Her book “ Discovering …
Judith Kaplan Eisenstein
… in New York , U.S.A. Studied at Columbia University, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and the Hebrew Union … at both of these two institutions. Published studies in Jewish music, Jewish songbooks, and her own compositions. A daughter of …
Ezra Fleischer
… extensively on early piyyut, medieval Hebrew poetry and Jewish prayers and was the leading scholar of these …
Artur Holde
Born in Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Began his career in Frankfurt, as a…
Nikolai Kaufman
… unfailing efforts to the documentation and study of the Jewish traditions of Bulgaria. Although his publications on … full evaluation of Kaufman’s contributions to the study of Jewish musical traditions is a desideratum because many of … or Rustchuk) on the Danube, the site of an important Jewish community, to an Ashkenazi family. As he relates in a …
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
… Anita Lasker was born into a German Jewish family in Breslau, then Germany (present day …
Ivan Lipaev
… Artist of the RSFSR in 1925. Lipaev was also interested in Jewish music, was a friend of pioneering ethnomusicologist …
Eric Mandell
… prominent cantors of his time. At the age of twenty, the Jewish community of Bochum engaged him as cantor, choir … of original scores (manuscript and printed) and books about Jewish music while writing for journals on Jewish music and music education. Mandell was arrested a day …
Eleanor Gordon Mlotek
… to Max Weinreich , co-founder of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (then known as the Yiddish Scientific … a lifetime achievement award by the Milken Archive and The Jewish Theological Seminary in 2003. Source: ' YIVO Mourns … of Chana Mlotek, 1922-2013 ', in YIVO Institute for Jewish Research See also: A biography of Hannah Mlotek on …