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Esther R. Warkov
… seminal contributions to the study of Arab music and Arab-Jewish musicians in Iraq and Israel feature prominently on … website . She has also contributed biographies of Iraqi-Jewish musicians for this website. Warkov received a … improvisation by these musicians as an indicator of culture change. Warkov’s research and musical analysis …
Akiva Zimmermann
… immersed himself in the world of Hebrew books and Hebrew culture at its best. He was well versed 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 languages. … biography can be viewed at Amnon Netzer Center For Iranian Jewish History And Heritage' s website. Autobiography by …
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 … Belarus, and his exposure to the Haskalah and modern German culture that spread to the new Jewish settlements of …
Abraham Goldfaden
… father took advantage of a new law mandating that Jewish students attending public school would be except from … he began publishing a satirical journal, Yisrolec for the Jewish community living there. The journal was in … five years of his life involved in promoting the growing culture of Yiddish literature and theater. Click here to …
Albert Elias
… maqam Ajam , 1995. Haki Ovadiya and Elias . More sources: Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited …
Bence Szabolcsi
… son of Miksa Szabolcsi (1856-1915), editor of the Hungarian Jewish weekly Egyenlőség . He studied musicology at Leipzig … 'Proclamation Style' in Hebrew music ' in Studies of the Jewish Music Research Centre, ed. Israel Adler. Jerusalem: … Judit. ' Jews and Hungarians in Modern Hungarian Musical Culture ' in Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume IX: …
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 … at Hebrew University’s Daat Hamakom Center for the Study of Cultures of Place in the Modern Jewish World and a visiting …
Michael Lukin
… A research associate, specializing in the traditional culture of Yiddish speakers. His recent publications, … , Yuval , Musik Traditionen , Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore , and Shofar , explore Yiddish folk songs … the University of Pennsylvania. Michael teaches courses on Jewish musical traditions and folklore, Hasidic musical …
Zecharia Plavin
… … Israeli musician, composer, concert pianist, pedagogue, culture and society researcher … Piano … Concert music … …