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Naomi Cohn-Zentner
… She was formerly the head of the M.A. program in Jewish music at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies. Her Ph.D. from Hebrew University's … Center for the Study of Cultures of Place in the Modern Jewish World and a visiting fellow at the Oxford Seminar in …
Michael Lukin
… Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and obtained the MA in Jewish Music at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In his … end of the nineteenth century. He is a researcher at the Jewish Music Research Centre (JMRC) and a lecturer at Bar … and at Sapir Academic College, teaching courses in Jewish music, Hasidic nigun, Mysticism and music by Jews, …
Esther Sheinberg
… Musical Cultural Units, Musical Space as Cultural Unit, Jewish Immigrant Musicians 1910-1950, and the Ethics of …
Yizhak Edel
… grandfather. In his grandfather’s house, Edel received a Jewish education, but he was also exposed to music while … He also became acquainted with the works of the Society for Jewish folk Music which were based mainly in St. Petersburg … . These experiences would later lead him to deal with Jewish nationalistic issues through music and the arts. In …
Ya'akov Orland
… construction of foundational national buildings like the Jewish Agency headquarters, the Yeshurun Synagogue, and the …
Ernest Bloch
… change in Bloch’s compositional style as he turned to Jewish material for inspiration. During this period he … in Portland, Oregon, of cancer at the age 78. … Swiss born Jewish American composer … Ernest Bloch …
Zecharia Plavin
Born in Vilnius in 1956, studied at the Ciurlionis School of Arts and Vilnius…
Joseph Achron
… Krein, and Moses Michail Milner, he founded the Society for Jewish Folk Music . Achron's association with these … of Russian and European Jewry. Joseph (Yussl) Achron, Jewish violinist and composer, was born May 1/13, 1886 in … In 1911, Achron joined the St. Petersburg “Society of Jewish Folk Music” founded three years earlier by Joel …
Samuel Alman
… quickly, and he was hired to lead several other local Jewish choirs in London . Alman was deeply influenced by the …
Moshe Koussevitsky
… and enrolled at the Ramailes Yeshiva to supplement his Jewish and secular education. He received his first …