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Israel Adler
… Israel Adler was born in Berlin in 1925 and immigrated to Palestine with his parents at the age of eleven. He pursued … as well as those of the non-Jewish communities of Israel/Palestine and of the Middle East . This newly created …
Hanoch Avenary
… PhD from Koenigsberg University. In 1936 he immigrated to Palestine, and served in the Israeli Air Force (1948-1965). …
Bathja [Batya] Bayer
… Born in Bingen, Germany. Taken to Palestine in 1936. Received a PhD in Musicology at the … Conducted an extensive archeological research in Palestine to gather data about the musical instruments and …
Gershon Ephros
… became a choir leader in Zgersh. In 1909, he immigrated to Palestine, where he studied Hazzanut and harmony with A.Z. …
Edith (Esther) Gerson Kiwi
… the Nazi regime, Gerson-Kiwi and her family immigrated to Palestine in 1935, and settled in Jerusalem . There, she … charge of the archive which was then part of the greater Palestine Institute of Folklore and Ethnology. In 1963 she …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… impacted by the diversity of the Jewish community living in Palestine, and embarked on a massive project to record their … was a comprehensive study of the Yemenite community in Palestine. Idelsohn was particularly interested in this … German, Eastern European and Hassidic Jewish communities in Palestine and throughout the Diaspora. This immense project …
Leo Levi
… changed his specialization to botany and settled in Palestine in 1936. Since the Emancipation Edict of 1848, …
Peter Emanuel Gradenwitz
… was born in in Berlin, Germany. In 1936 he immigrated to Palestine, where he founded the first publishing house. He …
Menashe Ravina
… Ukraine. Studied music in Germany, immigrated to Palestine in 1924 where he became very active in the local …
Solomon Rosowsky
… first Jewish Conservatory of Music. Rosowsky immigrated to Palestine in 1925 and began working as a composer of … work of the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music in Palestine. It was also during this time that Rosowsky began … cantillation. Rosowsky received a teaching position at the Palestine Conservatory of Music in Jerusalem (now the Rubin …