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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, … works, cantatas and oratorios. Dorfman researched the Jewish musical tradition of Eastern Europe, focusing on the …
Marsha Bryan Edelman
… Dr. Marsha Bryan Edelman is professor emerita of music and education at Gratz College. A graduate of Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, she holds degrees in music, Jewish music education, Jewish music and Jewish studies. Her …
Judith Kaplan Eisenstein
… American author, musicologist and composer. Born in New York , U.S.A. Studied at Columbia University, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and the Hebrew Union … at both of these two institutions. Published studies in Jewish music, Jewish songbooks, and her own compositions. A …
Artur Holde
… his career in Frankfurt , as a synagogue conductor and a music critic. In 1937, he imigrated to the U.S. and settled … in New York . There he worked as a choirmaster and as a music critic. His important publication is: Jews in Music: From the Age of Enlightenment to the Mid-Twentieth …
Nikolai Kaufman
… Musicologist, folklorist and composer Nikolay (or Nikolaï) … unfailing efforts to the documentation and study of the Jewish traditions of Bulgaria. Although his publications on … full evaluation of Kaufman’s contributions to the study of Jewish musical traditions is a desideratum because many of …
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
… Anita Lasker was born into a German Jewish family in Breslau, then Germany (present day …
Ivan Lipaev
… from 1924–31. He was also dedicated to the modernization of music pedagogy in the Russian empire and advocated for better conditions for music students and orchestra members. He was made Honored … Artist of the RSFSR in 1925. Lipaev was also interested in Jewish music, was a friend of pioneering ethnomusicologist …
Eric Mandell
… Mandell passed away in Philadelphia on February 6, 1988. Musically gifted since his youth, he trained under prominent cantors of his time. At the age of twenty, the Jewish community of Bochum engaged him as cantor, choir … of original scores (manuscript and printed) and books about Jewish music while writing for journals on Jewish music and …
Eleanor Gordon Mlotek
… to Max Weinreich , co-founder of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (then known as the Yiddish Scientific … and quickly gained a name for herself as a scholar of music and folklore. In 1970, she and Yosl began writing a … a lifetime achievement award by the Milken Archive and The Jewish Theological Seminary in 2003. Source: ' YIVO Mourns …
Joseph Mlotek
… of 7. As a young man, he was active in the Bund and other Jewish labor and socialist organizations. He also published … E. Wiener Oral History Library of the American Jewish Committee at 'New York Public Library'. Joseph …