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Emanuel Zamir
Emanuel Zamir was a unique figure in the field of Hebrew Folksong (Zemer Ivri). He was…
Zikmund (Siegmund) Schul
Zikmund Schul was born on January 11, 1916 in Kassell, Germany. Schul studied…
Mordekhai Zeira
Life
Mordekhai Zeira was born in Kiev, Russia, in 1905. Although he was born to a…
Yosef Hadar
Yosef Hadar was born in Tel Aviv in 1926 to a musical family. His mother Yafa and his…
Hirsch Glik
Hirsch Glik was born in 1920 to a working class family in Vilna. Glik began writing…
The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Late Manifestation of the Musical Trope
Western Ashkenazi cantors have developed a new soloist style of liturgically important…
Review of recording: Pizmon
Discusses 'Pizmon: Syrian-Jewish religious and social song' (Meadowlark 105, 1985)…
The practice of music as an expression of religious philosophy among the East-Ashkenazi Jews
Special issue on Jewish music Establishing a conceptual framework for the discussion of…
La transmission orale de la Mishnah
A pioneer study of the chanting of the Mishnah, the Jewish Oral Law, by the Jews of…