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Michael Lukin
… A research associate, specializing in the traditional culture of Yiddish speakers. His recent publications, featured in Polin , The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore , … and historical lenses. He has also investigated other aspects of Eastern Ashkenazi traditional culture, such …
Amit Klein
… Agenda, Carlebach Nusah vs. Cantorial Recitatives, and the performance styles of 20th-century cantorial recitatives. His paper on the Musical Supplication in the Golden Age of Ashkenazi Cantorial Art earned him the …
Esther Sheinberg
… Irony and ambiguity in music, Humor in Music, the Music of Dmitrii Shostakovich, Musical acculturation, … as Cultural Unit, Jewish Immigrant Musicians 1910-1950, and the Ethics of Music Aesthetics. Her latest research focuses on Existential Irony in …
Yizhak Edel
… was born in Warsaw in 1896 to a Hassidic family. His grandfather, a Hassidic scholar, took responsibility for his … parents moved to Rovna, he went to live with his grandfather. In his grandfather’s house, Edel received a Jewish education, but he was …
Ya'akov Orland
… age five, he survived a pogrom in his hometown that claimed the lives of eight family members, after which his family … on Orland's work, inspiring his poem Kyiv. From Kyiv, the family crossed the Dnieper and Dniester rivers and eventually settled in …
Gil Aldema
… Gil Aldema was born in the Borokhov neighborhood (today Giv'atayim), Israel. As a … under composer Paul Ben-Haim . In 1947, while serving in the Palmach, he composed his first song to the words of Haim Hefer ('The Height of Fun'). Afterwards, …
Ernest Bloch
… born on July 24, 1880 in Geneva, Switzerland. He studied at the Conservatory in Brussels under noted teachers Eugene Ysaye and Francois Rasse, later moving on to the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt where he was a pupil of composer Iwan Knorr. Bloch immigrated to the United States in 1916, and in 1920 was appointed the …
Zecharia Plavin
… Born in Vilnius in 1956, studied at the Ciurlionis School of Arts and Vilnius Conservatoire … since 1980, including Israel Philharmonc Orchestra, and other orchestras, also in Europe and USA, under numerous … and - in recent years - for Lithuanian Music Archive. Many thematic duo performances with violinist Prof. Raimondas …
Joseph Achron
… . His musical genius became evident early on and at the age of five he began violin lessons with his father. Achron continued his formal musical education at St. … Leopold Auer, and composer Anatoly Lyadov. In 1908 together with Solomon Rosowsky , Mikhail Gnessin , Alexander …
Yedidyah Admon
… to Palestine in 1906 and received his formal education at the Teacher's Seminary in Jerusalem under musicologist … Zvi Idelsohn . From 1923 to 1927 Admon studied Music Theory and Composition in the United States. Upon his return to Palestine in 1927 he …