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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 … Idelsohn was greatly impacted by the diversity of the Jewish community living in Palestine, and embarked on a … beginning of harmony. He acquainted me with the Chazanic literature of Weintraub, Sulzer, Lewandowski and others. He …
Israel J. Katz
… and Joseph H. Silverman (d. 1989) on the series Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews. Katz served as editor … ). He was a founding member of the American Society for Jewish Music (1974) and served as chairman of the board … Katz concentrated his studies on the Sephardic and Oriental Jewish communities of the Mediterranean region, and on the …
Yehuda Ratzaby
… studied there until 1939. He studied Arabic language and literature, Hebrew literature, and Bible, and received his Master's degree from … and was awarded a doctorate. From 1964, he taught Arabic-Jewish literature and medieval Hebrew literature at Bar-Ilan …
Amnon Shiloah
… Born in Lanus, Argentina in 1928 to a family of Jewish immigrants from Syria, Shiloah returned with his … at the Hebrew University where he studied Hebrew and Arabic Literature as well as Bible, graduating in 1951. He … As a teacher Shiloah contributed in Israel to the fields of Jewish ethnomusicology, especially the study of Judeo-Arabic …
Ezra Fleischer
… Fleischer (1928-2006), Israel Prize Laureate for Hebrew Literature (1959), was professor of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He … extensively on early piyyut, medieval Hebrew poetry and Jewish prayers and was the leading scholar of these …