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Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur (يوسف زعرور) was born in Baghdad in either 1902 or 1896—per Israeli immigration documents—to a … family celebrations from an early age, which exposed him to the richness of the religious vocal repertoire of his … al-Qubbanji. Cairo Congress, 1932, rooftop of the Cairo Academy of Music and Arts. Members of the Iraqi ensemble …
Jews in Gibraltar and the music of their synagogues
… Jews in Gibraltar and the music of their synagogues: An introduction Introducing the recordings … more synagogues emerged. In 1759, the Yeshivah (Talmudic Academy) established by Isaac Nieto in Irish Town (the old …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… This document, in the form of a synoptic table, incorporates three versions of Idelsohn’s autobiography. The original table is available in table format as a PDF … parush ]) in a Beshamidrash [Heb. Beit Midrash, rabbinical academy], who introduced me to the pilpul technique of …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century … cordial to him and facilitated the grant from the Imperial Academy of Sciences for continuing his research in … music history. He received a master’s degree from the Royal Academy of Music in Berlin and in 1908 he became choirmaster …
Shema' qoli
… A famous baqqashah composed by R. Hai Gaon (d. 1038), one of the undisputed leaders of the Academy of Babylonia (today Iraq). It was adopted by the …
Shelomo Morag
… Shlomo Morag was an Israeli professor at the department of Hebrew Language at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Morag founded the Jewish … in the East for several years. He was a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language and the Israel Academy of …
Karel Berman
… of opera in Opava. In March, 1943, Berman was deported to Theresienstadt, where he took part in cultural life as a … July 1944, for example, he and Rafael Schächter produced the "Four songs to words of Chinese poetry " by Pavel … the Prague Conservatory from 1961–71, and from 1964 at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. See the list of …
Isaac Levy
… born in Manisa near Izmir to a Sephardic Jewish family. At the age of three, he moved with his family to then Mandatory Palestine. Levy studied at the Conservatory of Music in Jerusalem (now the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance) and in Tel Aviv at the Samuel …
Uri Sharvit
… was born in Jerusalem in 1939. He received his diploma from the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem in 1965, his bachelor's degree from the Hebrew University in 1968, his Master of Arts from …
Yosef Goldenberg
… Dr. Yosef Goldenberg teaches at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, where he also serves as head librarian, and at the department of musicology at the Hebrew University of …