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Brakha Tzefira
… His wife Hadassah, Brakha's beloved teacher, encouraged her musical talents, and proposed that Tzefira should sing … She moved to Tel Aviv and was accepted to the Palestine Theater, founded by Menehem Gnessin, as well as to his acting school. The theater was closed the same year, in 1927, and Tzefira …
Nikolai Kaufman
… Musicologist, folklorist and composer Nikolay (or Nikolaï) … Kaufmann) is considered as one of Bulgaria's foremost music scholars. Although the vast majority of his academic … and artistic output was in the field of Bulgaria folk music, with strong emphasis on studies about plurivocality …
Herman Svet
… Yehudith Wahl, from Berlin. In 1917 he began writing about music for various Russian-language periodicals in Kiev and … He has recorded over 150 performances on history and music on The Voice of Jerusalem radio station. From 1947 he … Musical Culture in the Soviet Period (1968), Jewish Theater in Soviet Russia (1968). Gershon Svet died on July …

Doyne (LKT)
… and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … or refer to the term in question. It also indicates whether musical notation or sound recordings are included in the … rather than dancing, doinas often serve to showcase a musician’s virtuosity and expressiveness, and …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… Childhood and early musical career Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur (يوسف زعرور) was born … al-Kabbir was a source of inspiration for the younger musician. He owned the modern-styled coffeehouse Sawwas on … which began on October 18, 1932, at the al-Hilal Theater located on the fashionable Al-Rashid Street in …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … for the symbolic public display, through the language of music, of new evolving aesthetic ideals, of Jewish public … für Jüdische Musik (EZJM) at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hannover and the Jewish Music Research …
Gershon Sirota
… grandfather was a member. The board of trustees, and other music professionals in attendance, were taken aback by the … styles. Yakovkin encouraged Sirota to consider studying music formally at the Odessa Conservatory of Music. Based on several recommendations submitted to Baron …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… study aims to trace the unique characteristics of a type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European … Israeli one, in which Arabic and Turkish tunes, new Yiddish theater melodies, Hebrew quasi-Hasidic songs, and old … 1985, 191–92): anti-Hasidic maskilic parodies and Jewish theater songs, which, over time, were adopted into the …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He continued … in 1906. In Jerusalem, he began working as a cantor and music teacher at the Hebrew Teacher’s college. Idelsohn was … and embarked on a massive project to record their unique musical and linguistic traditions. To his end, Idelsohn was …
Pnina Salzman
… But I fancy an innate sensibility and vitality of musical mind and feeling will preserve her from all that.” ( … Since 1969, she taught at the Samuel Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University, where she became a professor … local artists) she has been active in the field of chamber music, playing with some of the most distinguished Israeli …