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Tzipora Jochsberger
… and Dance. Moved to the US in 1952, and received a PhD in Jewish Music from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1972. … video series 'A People and its Music' about various Jewish musical traditions. Dr. Jochsberger was a true friend of the JMRC …
Betty Olivero
… contemporary compositional form, yet is inspired by ancient Jewish and other early musical traditions. Folk material appears in rich, nuanced …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… 17, 1859. His father, Rabbi Eliyahu Navon, was one of the Jewish intellectuals and public figures in Adrianpole, a … 50 of these songs and melodies, transcribed in printed musical notation. After some time, he became acquainted with … he was a main vessel in bringing Judeo- Turkish musical traditions to Eretz-Yisrael and that he had great influence …
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, … and is editor of the acclaimed CD series Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel. Besides his academic activities Prof. …
Israel Adler
… Institut de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and musical studies. During his thirteen-year sojourn in Paris … a world center for the documentation of oral Jewish musical traditions as well as those of the non-Jewish communities of …
Frank Alvarez-Pereyre
… the Mishna: study of oral performances from linguistic and musical points of view; Jewish interlinguistics: the French and Hebrew of Jews in … Jews in Germany, Austria, and Romania; the liturgical music traditions of Ethiopian Jews … Linguist … Frank …
Mordechai Breuer
… world of yeshivot and their development. Mordechai Breuer's Musical Education: In the synagogue of the Kahal Adat … and holidays. In Israel, Breuer taught the history of Jewish music at the conservatory. In the 1950s, he taught at … liturgical and para-liturgical music, customs, and traditions, as were customary in the community and in Prof. …
Edith (Esther) Gerson Kiwi
… Folklore and Ethnology. In 1963 she founded the Museum of Musical Instruments at the Rubin Academy of Music in … dealing with the correlation and mutual influence found in Jewish, Christian and Muslim musical traditions. See also the project on our website: The …
Jehoash Hirshberg
… received a distinguished prize. He pursued his academic and musical training at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music, earning a … field of research was the development of art music in he Jewish community in Ottoman and British Palestine (the … also engaged in ethnomusicology, studying the oral musical traditions of the Karaite Jews, a subject on which he …
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 …