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Jehoash Hirshberg
… Professor of Musicology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Research interests: The musical heritage of the Karaite Jews in Israel. History of the music of the Yishuv (1880-1948). Music in migrant and …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He continued … in 1906. In Jerusalem, he began working as a cantor and music teacher at the Hebrew Teacher’s college. Idelsohn was … and embarked on a massive project to record their unique musical and linguistic traditions. To his end, Idelsohn was …
Rachel Kollender
… Lecturer, Musicologist and Ethnomusicologist, with special interest in Jewish music, Karaite music, women and music in jewish societies, …
Mark Kligman
… Mark L. Kligman is the Mickey Katz Chair Professor of Jewish Music at the Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles, a Chair … Studies and is the editor of the association's journal, Musica Judaica. He also authored a chapter in The Oxford …
Ruth Katz
… Ruth Katz is an Israeli musicologist, a pioneer of academic musicology in Israel, professor emerita at the Hebrew … She has been a corresponding Member of the American Musicological Society since 2011. She was named laureate of …
Israel J. Katz
… of the Sephardic Jews. Katz served as editor of Ethnomusicology (1970–72); for the Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council, he was editor (1977–70), coeditor (with … He was a founding member of the American Society for Jewish Music (1974) and served as chairman of the board (until …
Eric Karsenti
… at the Ministry of Health. Research interests in Jewish music: the musical traditions of the Algerian Jews; Written sources of synagogue music from nineteenth-century Italy. … Researcher … Eric …
Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the loss of Cantor Sylvan … 1929 - January 15, 2025), a prominent scholar of Western music theory who was also a leading composer, arranger, and … immigrants, Sholom Kalib was a mainstay of Jewish music in mid-twentieth century Chicago, serving as a …
Robert Lachmann
… It was there that Lachmann was first exposed to non-Western music and folklore, and he began working on transcriptions … the seeds for his doctorate research of North African music. After the war, Lachmann began to study musicology formally at Berlin University under Johannes Wolf …
Leo Levi
… first scholar to devote research to the Italian Jewish oral musical traditions. However, his role in the field of Jewish ethnomusicology, and in particular in the development of ethnomusicology in Italy, remains to be fully recognized. The …