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Israel Adler
… in 1925 and immigrated to Palestine with his parents at the age of eleven. He pursued traditional religious studies … in Jerusalem and in Petah Tikvah. After his release from the military following service in Israel’s War of Independence, he moved to Paris where he studied at the Conservatoire National de Musique, at the Ecole Pratique …
Israel Alter
… Israel Alter was born in Lvov (then known as Lemberg, today Ukraine) into a Hasidic family … and composition, including Cantor Yehuda Leib Miller . At the age of 20, he began serving as the cantor of the Brigittenauer Synagogue in Vienna. In …
Frank Alvarez-Pereyre
… s-Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Paris V; Director of the team Langues, Musiques, Societes, CNRS. Research interests: the cantillation of the Mishna: study of oral performances from linguistic and …
Hanoch Avenary
… Born in Danzig, Germany, Avenary attended the universities of Leipzig, Munich, Frankfurt, and … In 1936 he immigrated to Palestine, and served in the Israeli Air Force (1948-1965). In 1972 Avenary began … University's Department of Musicology and was a member of the Jewish Music Research Centere. He published many books …
Bathja [Batya] Bayer
… Taken to Palestine in 1936. Received a PhD in Musicology at the University of Zurich, and later a earned a librarian's degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Directed the music department in the National Library (1964-1974). …
Avner Bahat
… Avner Bahat was born in 1932 in Tel Aviv. His mother, Malka (Bitterman), was born in Galicia, Poland, and his father in Smutrich, Ukraine., His parents met on their way to Israel and got married. At the age of five, …
Moses Beregovski
… Moses Beregovski was born in the Ukraine in 1892. He was exposed to liturgical music at an early age through his father who was a teacher at the Kiev Jewish Music School and a ba’al kore (official who …
Abraham Wolf Binder
… music and Jewish folklore. He was a member of his father’s synagogue choir from a young age, an experience which further developed his knowledge and love of nusach ha’tfillah … continued his involvement in Jewish choral music, forming the Hadassah Choral Union in 1916 and the music department …
Eduard Birnbaum
… Birnbaum was awarded a sholarship to study hazzanut at the Breslau Theological Seminary, founded by Moritz Deutsch . While studying there, he was contracted to work as a hazzan in the …
Abraham Baer
… throughout western Prussia before settling as a cantor at the Goteborg Synagogue in Sweden in 1857. During his tenure there, along with organist Joseph Czapek, he published Muisk … , Louis Lewandowski and Samuel Naumbourg , covering the liturgy of the entire Jewish calendar year. This major …