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Shoshana Liessmann
… Studied Jewish Studies and Musicology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, graduated in Jewish Civilization …
Naomi Cohn-Zentner
… Naomi Cohn Zentner is an assistant professor in the Department of Music at Bar Ilan University. She was formerly the head of the M.A. program in Jewish music at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies. …
Michael Lukin
… A research associate, specializing in the traditional culture of Yiddish speakers. His recent publications, featured in Polin , The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore , … , Yuval , Musik Traditionen , Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore , and Shofar , explore Yiddish folk songs …
Esther Sheinberg
… Irony and ambiguity in music, Humor in Music, the Music of Dmitrii Shostakovich, Musical acculturation, … Musical Cultural Units, Musical Space as Cultural Unit, Jewish Immigrant Musicians 1910-1950, and the Ethics of Music Aesthetics. Her latest research focuses …
Yizhak Edel
… was born in Warsaw in 1896 to a Hassidic family. His grandfather, a Hassidic scholar, took responsibility for his … parents moved to Rovna, he went to live with his grandfather. In his grandfather’s house, Edel received a Jewish education, but he was also exposed to music while …
Ya'akov Orland
… age five, he survived a pogrom in his hometown that claimed the lives of eight family members, after which his family … on Orland's work, inspiring his poem Kyiv. From Kyiv, the family crossed the Dnieper and Dniester rivers and … construction of foundational national buildings like the Jewish Agency headquarters, the Yeshurun Synagogue, and the …
Ernest Bloch
… born on July 24, 1880 in Geneva, Switzerland. He studied at the Conservatory in Brussels under noted teachers Eugene Ysaye and Francois Rasse, later moving on to the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt where he was a pupil of … change in Bloch’s compositional style as he turned to Jewish material for inspiration. During this period he …
Zecharia Plavin
… Born in Vilnius in 1956, studied at the Ciurlionis School of Arts and Vilnius Conservatoire … since 1980, including Israel Philharmonc Orchestra, and other orchestras, also in Europe and USA, under numerous … and - in recent years - for Lithuanian Music Archive. Many thematic duo performances with violinist Prof. Raimondas …
Joseph Achron
… . His musical genius became evident early on and at the age of five he began violin lessons with his father. Achron continued his formal musical education at St. … and Moses Michail Milner , he founded the Society for Jewish Folk Music . Achron's association with these …
Emanuel Aguilar
… Emanuel Aguilar, brother of author Grace Aguilar, was born in London in 1824. He … Aguilar is best known for his notation and arrangement of the Sephardic Liturgical music of Amsterdam, as sung by … Melodies of the Liturgy of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews was published in 1857 as a result of close work with de …