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Efraim Yaakov
… Hogeriya in Yemen. He completed his academic degrees in the Department of History and Philosophy at the Hebrew University, where he served as an assistant to Prof. Yeshayahu Leibowitz. He wrote the M.A. and his doctoral dissertations on Kabbalah among …
Mordechai Yardeni (Motl Sherman)
… Mordechai Yardeni was Born as Motl Sherman in 1906 in the town of Slovechno (Volyn province of the Russian Empire, now Ukraine). His father, Chaim Sherman, was a shochet (a ritual slaughterer), a …
Joseph Yasser
… in Lodz, Poland. Studied in Moscow, and in 1923 moved to the US. Worked as an organist in various synagogues and was one of the founders of the American Musicological Society. His research deals with …
Elias Zaludkowski
… Elias Zaludkowski was born in Meitchet, Poland. He was the son of the well-known Hazzan of Kalisz, Noah Zaludkowski … known as 'Reb Noah Lieder.' He studied with his father and other Hazzanim, and also at conservatories in Milan …
Akiva Zimmermann
… Akiva Zimmerman was born in 1936 in Tel Aviv. He attended the Shalva Gymnasium, enlisted in the Intelligence Corps. He would also serve in the military rabbinate. Akiva Zimmerman worked as a bank …
Alois Kaiser
… American hazzan and composer, and considered to be the founder of American cantorate. Kaiser received his early education in the religious school of the Vienna congregation under Dr. Henry Zirndorf, and then …
Amnon Netzer
… Authority's Persian Service in 1958 and was a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem until his death in 2008. … personal biography here) An Annotated Bibliography of the Writings of Amnon Netzer , Institute of Asian and African Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (first draft, 2004). A …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music traditions. He was also a public figure, being a significant activist in the Hapoel Hamizrachi movement, a religious socialist party within the Zionist movement. A thorough evaluation of his …
Stanley Sadie
… music critic, and editor. He was editor of the sixth edition of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Full biography …
Martin Ruhnke
… a German musicologist. His main areas of research were the music theory of early baroque music, Italian baroque opera and the life and work of Georg Philipp Telemann. Full biography …