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Edwin Seroussi

… was Director of the Jewish Music Research Centre from 2000 to 2023, and established and directed the School …

… [1] to Aharon and Margalit 'Adaki. The family originated from Sana'a, but Yehiel's paternal grandfather left due to … Rabbi Shalom Giat, a famous singer among the Yemenite Jews from Manakhah, who, upon visits to Sana'a, was always invited to sing at weddings. 'Adaki also learned cantorate from his visits to the synagogue. In 1920 'Adaki fled from …

Israel Adler

… in Jerusalem and in Petah Tikvah. After his release from the military following service in Israel’s War of … of the Bibliothèque Nationale. He was awarded a Doctorate from the Sorbonne in 1963 for his seminal work on the … of Humanities of the Hebrew University , which he directed from 1964 to 1969 and from 1971 to 2000. In 1969-1971, he …

Israel Alter

… references (where a melody in a specific word is borrowed from another prayer, thereby "referencing" it). Additional …

Frank Alvarez-Pereyre

… the cantillation of the Mishna: study of oral performances from linguistic and musical points of view; Jewish … performances of the Jews in Germany, Austria, and Romania; the liturgical music traditions of Ethiopian Jews …

Hanoch Avenary

… and Koenigsberg (Kaliningrad), and received his PhD from Koenigsberg University. In 1936 he immigrated to … and articles that deal with the history of Jewish music from the Middle Ages until the 19 th century, and was the …

Bathja [Batya] Bayer

… of Zurich, and later a earned a librarian's degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Directed the music …

Avner Bahat

… College of Music Educators, and the Seminar Ha'Kibbutzim. From 1982 to 1980 he served as secretary of the Israeli … the Center for Jewish Music at Beit Hatfutsot, and from 1984 he began producing records, and later CDs, of … Jewish music. Among the many CDs he recorded are Piyyutim from the Moroccan Jewish tradition by the payytan Rabbi David …

Moses Beregovski

… School and a ba’al kore (official who reads the Torah from the scroll in synagogue with proper accentuation and … recruited to catalogue and analyze the musical material from An-Ski’s second ethnographical expedition. In 1919 … the personal and professional details of Beregovski’s life from 1930-1948. The Encyclopedia Judaica (1971:600) asserts …

Abraham Wolf Binder

… folklore. He was a member of his father’s synagogue choir from a young age, an experience which further developed his … for use at the Stephen Wise Synagogue, eventually moving from a focus on Shabbat liturgy to that of the High Holidays …