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Israel Adler
… Palestine with his parents at the age of eleven. He pursued traditional religious studies in yeshivot in Jerusalem and … it became known as a world center for the documentation of oral Jewish musical traditions as well as those of the … Gerson-Kiwi. Cognizant that only a concerted effort of oral documentation would turn the NSA into a comprehensive …
Frank Alvarez-Pereyre
… interests: the cantillation of the Mishna: study of oral performances from linguistic and musical points of … Jews in Germany, Austria, and Romania; the liturgical music traditions of Ethiopian Jews … Linguist … Frank …
Abraham Wolf Binder
… (prayer melodies). He continued his involvement in Jewish choral music, forming the Hadassah Choral Union in 1916 and the music department at the 92nd … a number of important changes, including a return to traditional Biblical cantillation. Binder was also a serious …
Abraham Baer
… indicated the acceptance of this written source over the orally-transmitted traditional improvisation of the liturgical lore. Although …
Yehezkiel Braun
… in Israel , is most known for his often-performed choral music. A 2001 Israel Prize laureate, he is probably the … serial works as well. His work with modal music – mainly traditional Mizrahi tunes (Yemenite), but also some …
Rivka Havassy
… in the field of Sephardic studies, with a focus on Ladino traditional oral poetry; musical and folk culture of the Sephardi …
Jehoash Hirshberg
… Hirshberg also engaged in ethnomusicology, studying the oral musical traditions of the Karaite Jews, a subject on which he …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… project to record their unique musical and linguistic traditions. To his end, Idelsohn was awarded a research … century c.e. He argued that their musical and linguistic traditions were relatively uninterrupted by outside … in the opera, however, ended badly; disgusted with the immoral conduct of the players, I gave up my studies and, …
Israel J. Katz
… Judeo-Spanish ballads, comparing the stylistic features of traditional ballads from Jerusalem with those preserved … Jewish communities of the Mediterranean region, and on the traditional folk music of Spain, with special studies on the … J.H. Silverman, the six-volume Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Oral Tradition (1986–2005). He was also editor of many …
Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… notating the great heritage of Eastern European cantorial tradition, transcribing and publishing the cantorial … Kalib began work on his monumental volume, The Musical Tradition of The Eastern European Synagogue , conceived as a … and the difficulties of capturing a diverse, non-Western oral tradition in the confines of Western notation. …