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Betty Olivero
… Florence, Italy. She is a full professor of composition at the Music Department in Bar-Ilan University. Betty Olivero is a winner of the most prestigious Emet Prize for Art, Science and … touch on wide and complex areas of contrast, such as east and west, holy and secular, traditional and new. …
Ezra Aharon ("Azuri")
… recording both Iraqi and Egyptian styles by 1929. He was the prizewinner for the ‘ud at the 1932 International Congress of Oriental … on Esther Warkov’s Music for Peace in the Middle East YouTube channel: Ah Ya Nass al Hawa Law Hakam …
David Menahem
… was born in 1980 to a family who immigrated from Iraq in the 1950s. His maternal grandfather, Rabbi Gurje Yair, was an educator and one of the … David Shiro, and orchestras such as the Jerusalem East-West Orchestra. He also composed a melody for the …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… born in Adrianpole (today Edirne) on May 17, 1859. His father, Rabbi Eliyahu Navon, was one of the Jewish intellectuals and public figures in Adrianpole, a … enlightenment) and Jewish nationalism. Educated Jews from eastern and central Europe who settled in Adrianpole had …
Jan Radzynski
… Poland, immigrated to Israel in 1969, and studied at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music. In 1977, he moved to the U.S. and studied at Yale University where he was a … compositions merge musical elements of the Jewish Eastern European cantorate, Middle Eastern heterophony, and …
Max Weinreich
… specializing in sociolinguistics and Yiddis. His son is the linguist Uriel Weinreich. He is known for popularising the phrase 'A language is a dialect with an army and navy'. … pp. 13. Full biography at The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe . … Yiddish linguist … Yiddish … Languages … …
Karel Salmon
… Germany, Salmon studied composition with Richard Strauss at the Berlin Academy of the Arts, and later worked as a repetiteur at the Berlin … attempted to blend the Western-European style with near-Eastern, Mediterranean, and Jewish folklore. Salmon often …
Ray Musiker
… Born in 1927 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Ray is the fourth generation in a family of Klezmer musicians. As a … Jewish weddings. His parents immigrants to America from Northern Russia. From his parents, Ray inhererited a love of Eastern European Jewish music from Russia, Poland, Romania, …
Shmuel Zanvel Pipe
… in 1907 in Sanok, central Galicia, Poland. Pipe learned the tailoring trade from his father. He was active in the youth organization Ha-Shomer … efforts to develop mature and dispassionate scholars of East European Jewish studies. In 1930 he was among the …
Edwin Seroussi
… Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Prof. Seroussi started there his music studies (violin, theory and composition). He immigrated to Israel in 1971 … musical cultures of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, interactions between Jewish and Islamic cultures …