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Michal Smoira-Cohn
… Michal Smoira-Cohn studied at the Palestine Academy of Music (graduated 1947), and later at Uppsala University in … Sweden (1956-1958). Among her many activities in Israel's music scene are, to name a few: Editor of Bat Kol magazine; … such as Israeli folksongs, and various phases in the history of Jewish music. Sources: Toeplitz, Uri, Yohanan …
Avraham Soltes
… life: Judica; the struggle in Palestine to forge an Israel; Music, in all shapes and forms. Even as a rabbinical student … and educational activities that interpreted Jewish art, music, and literature. He was chairman of the National … week after week, he interwove the threads of Israeli history and culture with its musical heritage and that of …
Albert Weisser
… Upon graduating in 1948, he entered the master's program in musicology. Under the guidance of Curt Sachs , he wrote his thesis on 'The Jewish National Music in Russia', which was later published as The Modern … Jewish Theological Seminary (New York), where he taught the history of Jewish music and music theory from 1970 until his …
Efraim Yaakov
… He completed his academic degrees in the Department of History and Philosophy at the Hebrew University, where he … is unique in that it is based entirely on fieldwork, oral history and does not rely on any written material. His many … and especially recruited people on the subject of the music of the Jews of southern Yemen ... '. Sources (in …
Akiva Zimmermann
… and essays are prayer melodies and piyyutim , cantors, history of hazzanut , hazzanut in halakhic literature, and … articles on a variety of topics - from hazzanut and Jewish music to current affairs in politics and society. He also … Hazzanim, Cantors … Chazzanut … Hazzanut … Author … Jewish music … Akiva Zimmermann …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music traditions. He was also a public figure, being a … of articles titled “Lekorot haniggun hahassidi” (“Towards a history of the Hassidic niggun” 1930-1937) and produced, as …
Samuel Naumbourg
… professional hazzanim in his family. He received his formal musical education in Munich where he was recruited to sing … and was subsequently hired as a professor of liturgical music at the Séminaire Israélite. With the support of … introduction, giving an unprecedented overview of the history of religious Jewish music. Another of Naumbourg’s …
Joseph Shlisky
… a means of support. Shlisky never heard a note of Western music until his rise, but joined the Toronto Waves … and left it after a short time. He never thought about a musical career until, one day, he was singing at his sewing … which dramatized important events in Biblical and Jewish history followed by cantorial performances. Shlisky brought …
Mordekhai Zeira
… born in Kiev, Russia, in 1905. Although he was born to a musical family, his musical education consisted mostly of a handful of piano … . Many of their songs played a documentary role in the history of the Hebrew settlement in Israel. In an interview, …
Aleksander Kulisiewicz
… and preserved the largest collection in existence of music composed in the Nazi camps. Because this extraordinary … touches on a variety of issues relevant not only to music scholarship but also contemporary European history, it is valuable to musicologists and Holocaust …