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Andre Hajdu
… 5 March 1932 to a characteristically assimilated Hungarian-Jewish family and having survived the Holocaust (a subject … immersed himself in Judaism and started to observe Jewish religious practices. At the same time, he mingled in … works in which he followed the romantic and modern European tradition of “pure” music. Examples of this are his piano …
Rivka Havassy
… in the field of Sephardic studies, with a focus on Ladino traditional oral poetry; musical and folk culture of the Sephardi community of … 2007). Participated in various research projects in the Jewish Music Research Center, among them: Incipitario …
Alberto Hemsi
… Studied music in Izmir, and later in Milan. Worked as musical director in various synagogues in Egypt (1927-1957) and in France (from 1958). Collected many traditional Sephardic melodies mainly from Turkey and …
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 … and embarked on a massive project to record their unique musical and linguistic traditions. To his end, Idelsohn was awarded a research …
Eric Karsenti
… Unit at the Ministry of Health. Research interests in Jewish music: the musical traditions of the Algerian Jews; Written sources of …
Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the loss of Cantor … arranger, and documenter of the East European Synagogue Tradition in the United States. The son of Ukranian-Jewish … academia, Kalib began work on his monumental volume, The Musical Tradition of The Eastern European Synagogue , …
Robert Lachmann
… expeditions to North Africa , recording and documenting the musical practices of communities in Tripoli , Tunisia , … Lachmann recorded the liturgical and paraliturgical musical traditions of the local Jewish community, material that served as the base for his …
Leo Levi
… was the first scholar to devote research to the Italian Jewish oral musical traditions. However, his role in the field of Jewish …
Francesco Spagnolo
… The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Dissertation topic: The Musical Traditions of the Jews in Piedmont . Founder and Director of … at University of California, Santa Cruz . Editor of Italian Jewish Musical Traditions . Research interests: Italy; …
Solomon Rosowsky
… He helped to found the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music in 1908 and served as the musical director of the Yiddish Art Theater . In 1920, … cantillation based on his research of the Lituanian-Israeli tradition. The massive work is broken up into three main …