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Tamar de Sola Pool
… she worked with Hadassah’s Youth Aliyah program to rescue Jewish children from Europe and resettle them in Palestine. … with her husband on two books, Is There an Answer? about Jewish faith after the Holocaust, and An Old Faith in the New World , about their congregation’s 300-year history. Full biography: Marjorie Lehman, ' Tamar De Sola …
Alexander L. Ringer
… University (1983), and Heidelberg University - Academy for Jewish Studies (1983). Ringer also gave guest lectures at … the German Musicological Society, the World Congress on Jewish Music, the International Schoenberg Society, Society … eastern influences on Western music throughout time; the history of Jewish music and Jewish influences into Western …
Michal Smoira-Cohn
… such as Israeli folksongs, and various phases in the history of Jewish music. Sources: Toeplitz, Uri, Yohanan Boehm, and … Michal.' Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music . … Israeli Musicologist … Musicologist … …
Avraham Soltes
… many cultural and educational activities that interpreted Jewish art, music, and literature. He was chairman of the National Jewish Music Council from 1963 to 1969 and a member of the … week after week, he interwove the threads of Israeli history and culture with its musical heritage and that of …
Albert Weisser
… Albert Weisser was Born in New York City of Russian-Jewish parentage. He attended high school in Queens and sang … the guidance of Curt Sachs , he wrote his thesis on 'The Jewish National Music in Russia', which was later published … Jewish Theological Seminary (New York), where he taught the history of Jewish music and music theory from 1970 until his …
Efraim Yaakov
… He completed his academic degrees in the Department of History and Philosophy at the Hebrew University, where he … is unique in that it is based entirely on fieldwork, oral history and does not rely on any written material. His many … National Library. In addition, Efraim Yaakov dealt with the history of Spanish and Yemen Jewry and the history of …
Akiva Zimmermann
… and essays are prayer melodies and piyyutim , cantors, history of hazzanut , hazzanut in halakhic literature, and … in literature and the press and a great scholar of all Jewish and Israeli beings. He knew many of Israel's leaders … personally, particularly regarding their relationship to Jewish tradition and beliefs. Zimmerman had an immense …
Amnon Netzer
… was a leading authority on Iranian history and culture as well as Persian and Judeo-Persian … biography can be viewed at Amnon Netzer Center For Iranian Jewish History And Heritage' s website. Autobiography by Amnon …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … as a scholar is still a major gap in the historiography of Jewish music. Born in Myslowitz, Upper Silesia, then part of … of articles titled “Lekorot haniggun hahassidi” (“Towards a history of the Hassidic niggun” 1930-1937) and produced, as …
Samuel Naumbourg
… introduction, giving an unprecedented overview of the history of religious Jewish music. Another of Naumbourg’s important contributions … … Composer, Synagogue singer, Musicologist, French Jewish reformer of synagogue music & choirmaster … Hazan, …