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Avraham Soltes
… life: Judica; the struggle in Palestine to forge an Israel; Music, in all shapes and forms. Even as a rabbinical student … many cultural and educational activities that interpreted Jewish art, music, and literature. He was chairman of the … major work on Jewish Music, Off the Willows: The Rebirth of Modern Jewish Music. board of the National Jewish Book …
Albert Weisser
… Albert Weisser was Born in New York City of Russian-Jewish parentage. He attended high school in Queens and sang … Upon graduating in 1948, he entered the master's program in musicology. Under the guidance of Curt Sachs , he wrote his … Music in Russia', which was later published as The Modern Renaissance of Jewish Music: Events and …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … frontier with Belarus, and his exposure to the Haskalah and modern German culture that spread to the new Jewish …
Samuel Naumbourg
… professional hazzanim in his family. He received his formal musical education in Munich where he was recruited to sing … an unprecedented overview of the history of religious Jewish music. Another of Naumbourg’s important contributions was his work on the modern edition of Salomon de Rossi’s Ha-Shirim Asher …
Aaron Copland
… was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents of Lithuanian Jewish descent. In 1917 he began studying theory and composition with Rubin Goldmark, continuing his musical education with Goldmark, Victor Wittgenstein and … York’s League of Composers, often writing for its journal, Modern Music. He organized concert series and festivals, …
Bence Szabolcsi
… Bence Szabolcsi was a Hungarian music historian. He was born in Budapest, the younger son of Miksa Szabolcsi (1856-1915), editor of the Hungarian Jewish weekly Egyenlőség . He studied musicology at Leipzig … 250, 38- 39. Frigyesi, Judit. ' Jews and Hungarians in Modern Hungarian Musical Culture ' in Studies in …
Hugo Adler
… (1949). Adler replaced much of the 19th century liturgical music with new and modern musical settings. In 1942 he was awarded first prize by the …
Naomi Cohn-Zentner
… Cohn Zentner is an assistant professor in the Department of Music at Bar Ilan University. She was formerly the head of the M.A. program in Jewish music at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies. … Hamakom Center for the Study of Cultures of Place in the Modern Jewish World and a visiting fellow at the Oxford …
Michael Lukin
… USSR, completed his BA degree at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and obtained the MA in Jewish Music at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In his … historical perspective of its development from the early modern period until the end of the nineteenth century. He is …
Joseph Achron
… was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania . His musical genius became evident early on and at the age of … Krein, and Moses Michail Milner, he founded the Society for Jewish Folk Music . Achron's association with these … him in his obituary as: “one of the most under-estimated modern composers; the originality and profound elaboration …