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Kurt Weill
… to the USA. In the USA he was influenced by popular music and jazz, he met several of the outstanding figures of the Broadway stage and began to write musicals that enjoyed tremendous popularity. Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose, Gebrauchsmusik …
Bence Szabolcsi
… Bence Szabolcsi was a Hungarian music historian. He was born in Budapest, the younger son … of the Hungarian Jewish weekly Egyenlőség . He studied musicology at Leipzig University, gaining a doctorate in … Style' in Hebrew music ' in Studies of the Jewish Music Research Centre, ed. Israel Adler. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, …
Rita Flomenboim
… Rita Flomenboim, musicologist and music theoretician. Born in Chernovitz, USSR. Graduated at … for Music Education. Ph.D. graduate in Bar Ilan University. Researching the field of Jewish Art Music since 1983. …
Abigail Wood
… Lecturer in ethnomusicology in the Department of Music, University of Haifa. Completed her PhD on Yiddish … in contemporary North America' has been published. Current research interests include contemporary klezmer and Yiddish …
Shoshana Liessmann
… Studied Jewish Studies and Musicology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, … of Jerusalem. Topic of MA thesis: “Aspects of Jewish Musical Thought and Jewish Musicianship as a Reflection of … the Hebrew University, Department of Cultural Studies. Her research topic is: “The Hebrew Lexicon and Perspectives on …
Raffi Ben-Moshe
… kibbutz Iftah in the Galilee in 1949. B.A. Rubin Academy of Music, Tel-Aviv (1953). Composer, arranger and musical director of theater and cinema. M.A. thesis, … Niggun Experience in Chabad Hasidism” (1998). At the JMRC: research on Hassidic music. … Composer, arranger and musical …
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. Her … Jewish Studies focusing on early Jewish Music in 2019. Her research interests lie in historical ethnomusicology, sacred …
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 PhD … period until the end of the nineteenth century. He is a researcher at the Jewish Music Research Centre (JMRC) and a …
Amit Klein
… journals and books, covering topics such as Cantor Glantz’s Musical Agenda, Carlebach Nusah vs. Cantorial Recitatives, … of 20th-century cantorial recitatives. His paper on the Musical Supplication in the Golden Age of Ashkenazi … music analysis, and music therapy. … Graduate student, researcher of Ashkenazi cantorial music … Amit Klein …
Kumiko Yayama
… Research areas: Arabic music and piyutim. See also: "Home from Japan". … Ethnomusicologist … Kumiko Yayama …