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Mark Kligman
… Mark L. Kligman is the Mickey Katz Chair Professor of Jewish Music at the Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, … s family in 2014. He is also a published author of 5 books, the highest of which is in 150 libraries. He is also a board …
Ruth Katz
… of academic musicology in Israel, professor emerita at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has been a corresponding Member of the American Musicological Society since 2011. She was named laureate of the Israel State Prize in 2012. Katz's work addresses …
Israel J. Katz
… with Edith Gerson-Kiwi and undertook field research among the Sephardic communities of Israel. He returned to UCLA and … with a dissertation on Judeo-Spanish ballads, comparing the stylistic features of traditional ballads from Jerusalem with those preserved among the Sephardim of Turkey, Greece, and Morocco. Among other …
Eric Karsenti
… MD, MPH, Director of the Environmental Epidemiology Unit at the Ministry of Health. Research interests in Jewish music: the musical traditions of the Algerian Jews; Written sources …
Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… The son of Ukranian-Jewish immigrants, Sholom Kalib was a … well-regarded hazzan, choirmaster, and cantorial pedagogue. There he also began his life’s work notating the great heritage of Eastern European cantorial tradition, …
Robert Lachmann
… was born in Berlin and began his formal education at the University of Berlin and at the University of London, with a focus on French and Arabic … During World War I he served as an interpreter at the Wünsdorf POW camp, populated by primarily North African …
Leo Levi
… Leo Levi was the first scholar to devote research to the Italian Jewish oral musical traditions. However, his role in the field of Jewish ethnomusicology, and in particular in …
Peter Emanuel Gradenwitz
… In 1936 he immigrated to Palestine, where he founded the first publishing house. He wrote a history of Jewish …
Eric Werner
… cities in Europe, receiving his PhD in musicology at the University of Strasbourg in in 1928. Taught in … (1926-1933) and Breslau (1934-1938). Immigrated to the U.S. in 1938. Began teaching Jewish music and liturgy at the Hebrew Union College in 1939, becoming the chairman of …
Salomon Sulzer
… a cantor in his hometown, and was later appointed cantor at the Seitenstettengasse Synagogue in Vienna, where he stayed … admired and imitated cantor of his time, appreciated beyond the Jewish community. As a composer and musician, Sulzer is considered by some as the father of modern cantorate. This is a result of his …