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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 … communities of Israel/Palestine and of the Middle East . This newly created archive absorbed into its holdings …
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 … but he sang in the tenor range. He mastered both the Eastern European and Western cantorial styles and …
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 … interdisciplinary research of Music and Archeology of Near-East ancient civilizations. Conducted an extensive …
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 … for a doctorate with Prof. Jacques Chailley about: The East-West Encounter in Israeli Music (1939–1973): …
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 … on his projected five volume collection and study of Eastern European Jewish folk music. It is unclear exactly …
Abraham Eilam-Amzallag
… Morocco and in 1952 immigrated to Israel alone as part of the Youth Aliyah. He studied at the Tel Aviv Teachers' College of Music and the Rubin … in Israel. Amzallag-Eilam's musical style combine Eastern Melos with Western compositional techniques. His …
Judit Frigyesi
… teacher and poet. She received her Ph.D in History and Theory of Music from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989, and her Master's … with interviews) of the Jewish tradition recorded in East Europe and the largest archive of the liturgical music …
Rivka Havassy
… An independent researcher in the field of Sephardic studies, with a focus on Ladino traditional oral poetry; musical and folk culture of the Sephardi community of Thessaloniki; contacts between … The Historic Recordings of Haim Effendi of Turkey; Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs from the EMI …
Alberto Hemsi
… in Cancionero Sefardi (Jerusalem, 1995). Established the first Egyptian music-publishing house. Composed many works in which he tried to combine Western and Eastern elements. Additional biographies, written by Israel …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… he trained to be a cantor. He continued his education at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin and at the Leipzig Academy. Idelsohn served as a cantor at the Adat … Perisan, Bukharian, Oriental Sephardi, Moroccan, German, Eastern European and Hassidic Jewish communities in …