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Walter Zev Feldman
… Columbia University. Researcher on Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music, as well as the literature of the Ottoman and Central … Khevrisa: European Klezmer Music was issued by Smithsonian-Folkways in 2000. He is currently preparing at the JMRC a …
Andre Hajdu
… 5 March 1932 to a characteristically assimilated Hungarian-Jewish family and having survived the Holocaust (a subject … 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 …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… Latvia (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 …
Menashe Ravina
… From a young age, he actively participated in his father's musical pursuits, serving as a choir conductor in the … studies on Israel's national anthem, "Hatikvah," and the folk dances of Baruch Agadati. During his early years in … actively engaged in the musical circles of Eastern European Jewish musicians, documenting and arranging Jewish folk …
Amnon Shiloah
… Born in Lanus, Argentina in 1928 to a family of Jewish immigrants from Syria, Shiloah returned with his … of Aliyat Hano’ar in northern Israel where he started his musical studies. In 1947 he enrolled at the Hebrew … to Israel, he became the Director of the Department of Folklore at Kol Israel, a post he filled from 1965 to 1968, …
Joseph Dorfman
… at the Odessa Academy (1958-1965), and later studied Musicology and Composition at the Gnessin Musical Institute … as artistic director of the International Festivals of Jewish Art Music, initiated in 1992. As a composer, … Europe, focusing on the work of the Society of Jewish Folk Music . As part of his research, he found lost works of …