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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 …
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 …
Salamone Rossi
… Though much ink has been spilled reviewing the vast musical contribution of Jewish-Italian composer Salamone de Rossi, not much is known … synagogue service, representing a significant break from traditional monophonic melodies for liturgy and the reading …
Aron Marko Rothmüller
… Rothmüller composed chamber and choral music, many based on traditional Sephardic and Ashkenazi songs as well as … collection is located at the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and can accessed … and historical information on Rothmüller and his important Jewish cultural organization, Omanut based in Zagreb, and …