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Gershom Sizomu
… Gershom Sizomu is an Ugandan rabbi serving the Abayudaya, a Baganda community in eastern Uganda near the town of Mbale who practice Judaism. In 2007 he published … Jews~Uganda Lechu Neranena ( Come Let Us Sing for Joy to the Rock of Salvation): … Ugandan Jewry's spiritual leader …
Albert Elias
… instrument maker. In Baghdad Elias studied law as well as the nay with a Syrian teacher. He played with some of the greatest stars of Iraqi music, including Nazem al-Ghazali, Salima Morad, Muhammed al-Kubanchi, and the brothers Salah and Daoud al-Kuwaiti. He joined the …
Mark Kopytman
… in composition (Moscow Conservatory, 1958), he taught at the Leningrad Conservatory before emigrating to Israel, where he has taught at the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem since 1973. He established a … students have become well known composers and have chaired their own composition programs in universities in Israel and …
Bence Szabolcsi
… was a Hungarian music historian. He was born in Budapest, the younger son of Miksa Szabolcsi (1856-1915), editor of the Hungarian Jewish weekly Egyenlőség . He studied … at Leipzig University, gaining a doctorate in 1923 with a thesis on the Italian monodist composers Pierro …
Rita Flomenboim
… Rita Flomenboim, musicologist and music theoretician. Born in Chernovitz, USSR. Graduated at … Academy in Kishinev, later she was a faculty member there. Lives in Israel since 1974. Faculty member of the Samuel Rubin Academy of Music and Department of …
Abigail Wood
… Lecturer in ethnomusicology in the Department of Music, University of Haifa. Completed her … at Southampton University from 2002-6, and moved to take up the Joe Loss Lectureship in Jewish Music at SOAS, University … of London in 2006. In 2013 her book ''And we're all brothers': Singing in Yiddish in contemporary North America' …
Hugo Adler
… Hugo Adler was born in Antwerp, Belgium. He sang in the choir of Yossele Roenblatt in Hamburg, officiated as cantor in the Haupt-Synagoge in Mannheim, Germany (1921-1939), and … composition with Ernst Toch. In 1939, he immigrated to the US, and there he officiated as cantor at Temple Emanuel …
Shoshana Liessmann
… Studied Jewish Studies and Musicology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, graduated in Jewish Civilization at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Topic of MA thesis: …
Raffi Ben-Moshe
… from Kaduri High School (1946). Founder of kibbutz Iftah in the Galilee in 1949. B.A. Rubin Academy of Music, Tel-Aviv (1953). Composer, arranger and musical director of theater and cinema. M.A. thesis, Tel-Aviv University. Thesis: “The Niggun Experience …
Naomi Cohn-Zentner
… Naomi Cohn Zentner is an assistant professor in the Department of Music at Bar Ilan University. She was formerly the head of the M.A. program in Jewish music at the Schechter Institute …