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Meir Shimon Geshuri
… Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music traditions. He was also a public figure, being a significant … childhood in the all-Christian Dańdówka in terms of extreme musical isolation and alienation. Hendel-Malka, Geshuri’s … his words, “ideas, exempla, proverbs, written stories and oral narratives.” The original layout of five volumes …
Joseph Achron
… was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania . His musical genius became evident early on and at the age of … piano compositions for children, more than twenty songs, choral works, etc. Moreover, Achron wrote music for the first … musical language. During his childhood, Achron absorbed the traditions of 19th century virtuoso violin music, whereas …
Elio Piattelli
… (and beyond) with a choir that sang melodies from the oral traditions of the various rites of the Roman Jewish … from the University of Rome in 1931, he pursued his innate musicality studying in Rome with Maestro Cesare Dobici …
Edwin Seroussi
… undergraduate and graduate levels continuing into his doctoral studies at the University of California Los Angeles … Prof. Seroussi’s research focuses on the sacred and secular musical cultures of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, … and is editor of the acclaimed CD series Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel. Besides his academic activities Prof. …
Israel Adler
… de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and musical studies. During his thirteen-year sojourn in Paris … it became known as a world center for the documentation of oral Jewish musical traditions as well as those of the non-Jewish communities of …
Frank Alvarez-Pereyre
… interests: the cantillation of the Mishna: study of oral performances from linguistic and musical points of view; Jewish interlinguistics: the French … Jews in Germany, Austria, and Romania; the liturgical music traditions of Ethiopian Jews … Linguist … Frank …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… and embarked on a massive project to record their unique musical and linguistic traditions. To his end, Idelsohn was awarded a research … in the opera, however, ended badly; disgusted with the immoral conduct of the players, I gave up my studies and, …
Leo Levi
… the first scholar to devote research to the Italian Jewish oral musical traditions. However, his role in the field of Jewish …
Amnon Shiloah
… of Aliyat Hano’ar in northern Israel where he started his musical studies. In 1947 he enrolled at the Hebrew … 1965 to 1968, marking his definitive move to the study of oral traditions. At this same time he also joined the …
Nikolai Kaufman
… efforts to the documentation and study of the Jewish traditions of Bulgaria. Although his publications on these … of Kaufman’s contributions to the study of Jewish musical traditions is a desideratum because many of his … was published (Kaufman 1964). Kaufman was awarded a doctoral degree in Art Studies in 1973. In 1977 he was elected …