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Esther R. Warkov
… Esther Warkov's 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 …
Daniel Meir Weil
… In the field of Jewish musicology, he earned a second PhD from the Hebrew … make accessible to a wider public the fruits of his archaeo-musical and halakhic research in that domain. See: " שיחזור …
Hirsch Weintraub
… son of cantor-composer Solomon Weintraub , and started his musical training at an early age singing as a chorister in … choir in Dubno, and also receiving formal studies of music and violin. Later he left to study harmony in Vienna … . (Written by Ofer Ronen) Sources: Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music (Macy Nulman). Binder, A. W. Preface. 'Schire …
Albert Weisser
… Albert Weisser was Born in New York City of Russian-Jewish parentage. He attended high school in Queens and sang … Upon graduating in 1948, he entered the master's program in musicology. Under the guidance of Curt Sachs , he wrote his thesis on 'The Jewish National Music in Russia', which was later published …
Efraim Yaakov
… and especially recruited people on the subject of the music of the Jews of southern Yemen ... '. Sources (in …
Mordechai Yardeni (Motl Sherman)
… yeshiva Mishkan Israel. Later he enrolled in The School of Music and Drama. As a writer, Sherman made his debut writing … singer, with a repertoire of 'Israelian' songs and Jewish liturgy. From 1940 he began to accept offers from … synagogues on the East Coast of the United States and 'Jewish' hotels to work as a cantor during the Jewish …
Joseph Yasser
… Jewish music researcher & collector. Born in Lodz, Poland. Studied … synagogues and was one of the founders of the American Musicological Society. His research deals with theories of tonality, Russian music, and Jewish music (Biblical instruments, Biblical cantillation, …
Elias Zaludkowski
… Sources: Encyclopedia Judaica, Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music (Macy Nulman). … Hazzan and writer. … Elias Zaludkowski …
Akiva Zimmermann
… 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 … articles on a variety of topics - from hazzanut and Jewish music to current affairs in politics and society. He also …
Alois Kaiser
… Realschule and the Teachers' Seminary and Conservatory of Music in Vienna. From the age of ten he sang in the choir of … him and William Sparger with the compilation of the musical portion of a Union Hymnal, published in 1897. With … William Sparger; preface by Cyrus Adler); "Souvenir of the Jewish Women's Congress at the World's Columbian Exposition" …