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Elio Piattelli
… from the oral traditions of the various rites of the Roman Jewish community as well as original compositions for holidays and festivals. Graduated cum laude in Literature from the University of Rome in 1931, he pursued … of the oral traditions of cantors from the various Italian Jewish rites and traditions. Piattelli transcribed not only …
Joel Walbe
… Ukraine ). As a boy, his education was standard for wealthy Jewish families in Russia. He first studied Torah in the … teachers. Shalom Walbe, Joel's father, was a wealthy Jewish merchant and a Gabbai. He kept a secluded Jewish … musical interests, and considered the study of music and literature to be a foreign influence. Though Joel's mother …
Eliakum Zunser
… the elite of Vilna, and he was encouraged to study Hebrew literature and history. After his second marriage Zunser … versions. Its theme was the joy of returning to plow the Jewish earth in the Holy Land. Zunser himself hoped to … online March, 1 2009. Nulman, Macy. Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music , New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1975. ' …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… all of his career. He is most closely associated with the Jewish community of Dubno (today in western Ukraine), but … assistant singers (m’shor’rim) to sing and lead services in Jewish communities throughout Eastern Europe. Because of the … devotion and piety, and of a great knowledge of Hebrew literature…. His ...performance was overwhelming, and nobody …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… 17, 1859. His father, Rabbi Eliyahu Navon, was one of the Jewish intellectuals and public figures in Adrianpole, a … urban centers of the Ottoman Empire in the 1860s: Haskalah (Jewish enlightenment) and Jewish nationalism. Educated Jews … scholars. These Ashkenazi intellectuals spread the literature of the Haskalah among the circles of local youth. …
Joseph Papernikoff
… joined the Poalei Zion Left Party, which saw modern Yiddish literature as a central part of Jewish identity. Papernikoff was active in the cultural life …
Moses Beregovski
… early age through his father who was a teacher at the Kiev Jewish Music School and a ba’al kore (official who reads the … established and directed the musical division of the Jewish Culture League in Kiev and served as the director … of the Department of Jewish Culture of the Institute for Literature under the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. …
Abraham Eilam-Amzallag
… he studied Hebrew medieval poetry, Arabic and English literature. Avraham Amzallag (Eilam) served as a musicology … Western compositional techniques. His works fuse Oriental Jewish melisma and modern techniques. In 1994 he … nine years from its establishment. For the first time the Jewish version of the Andalusian music was transcribed by …
Walter Zev Feldman
… Columbia University. Researcher on Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music, as well as the literature of the Ottoman and Central Asian Turks. Conducted … music and poetry of epic in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, and Jewish klezmer music in the United States. His book , Music …
Judit Frigyesi
… Music in Budapest. Her research focuses on the music and literature of the 19 th -20 th centuries in Europe and … of full liturgies of services with interviews) of the Jewish tradition recorded in East Europe and the largest … prose and photographs, the experience of the sound of Jewish prayer. … Musicologist … Judit Frigyesi …