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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 … throughout Eastern Europe. Because of the exceptional musical and emotional power of his singing, he attained a … became an acclaimed exponent of Jewish Eastern European culture and tradition. Christians as well as Jews responded …
Betty Olivero
… of the most prestigious Emet Prize for Art, Science and Culture (2015), an Israeli prize awarded annually for … contemporary compositional form, yet is inspired by ancient Jewish and other early musical traditions. Folk material appears in rich, nuanced …
Ronit Seter
… the Grove Music Online (12 entries), she has published in Musical Quarterly, Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Jewish Women Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Judaica, Tempo, … received grants from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, Dan David Scholarship, National Endowment for the …
Herman Svet
… Berlin, which in those years was a city of refuge for many Jewish intellectuals who were fleeing Soviet Russia. Svet … including Russian Jews in Music (1960), J ews in Russian Musical Culture in the Soviet Period (1968), Jewish Theater in …
Edwin Seroussi
… (2004-2008; 2014-2016; 2019-2020), was Director of the Jewish Music Research Centre from 2000 to 2023, and … Prof. Seroussi’s research focuses on the sacred and secular musical cultures of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, …
Israel Adler
… Institut de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and musical studies. During his thirteen-year sojourn in Paris … characters, a visual icon symbolically linking Hebrew culture to the mainstream of early Western music history at …
Avner Bahat
… where he was introduced to a recorder and discovered his musical talent. Over time he developed a great skill on the … of Musicology. In 1981, he established the Center for Jewish Music at Beit Hatfutsot, and from 1984 he began producing records, and later CDs, of Jewish music. Among the many CDs he recorded are Piyyutim …
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 … accentuation and cantillation). Beregovski began his formal musical education at the Kiev and Leningrad conservatories … established and directed the musical division of the Jewish Culture League in Kiev and served as the director until it …
Abraham Baer
… and Samuel Naumbourg , covering the liturgy of the entire Jewish calendar year. This major anthology by Baer, cantor … European cantorial circles, the reliance on a written musical text by their American progenies was certainly more … Hammarlund, Anders. A Prayer for Modernity: Politics and Culture in the World of Abraham Baer (1834-1894) . …
Rivka Havassy
… studies, with a focus on Ladino traditional oral poetry; musical and folk culture of the Sephardi community of Thessaloniki; contacts … 2007). Participated in various research projects in the Jewish Music Research Center, among them: Incipitario …