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Yehuda Ratzaby
… of the leaders of the community there. While still a child studying in the local “Cheder”, his family suffered … the Balfour Gymnasium. In 1936, at the age of 20, he began studying at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and studied … and was awarded a doctorate. From 1964, he taught Arabic-Jewish literature and medieval Hebrew literature at Bar-Ilan …
Solomon Rosowsky
… in Law at the University of Kiev , Rosowsky went on to study music at the St. Petersburg Imperial Conservatory under … He helped to found the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music in 1908 and served as the musical director …
Salamone Rossi
… Though much ink has been spilled reviewing the vast musical contribution of Jewish-Italian composer Salamone de Rossi, not much is known … Rossi’s work attracted much attention in the emerging study of Jewish art music and Jewish music history among …
Alfred Sendrey
… Musician, conductor and musicologist Alfred Sendrey was born … to amass a comprehensive bibliographical resource for Jewish Music. This project was aided by Joseph Yasser , Curt … his official retirement, Sendrey began work on another study, Music in the Social and Religious Life of Antiquity …
Amnon Shiloah
… Born in Lanus, Argentina in 1928 to a family of Jewish immigrants from Syria, Shiloah returned with his … of Aliyat Hano’ar in northern Israel where he started his musical studies. In 1947 he enrolled at the Hebrew … Masa . In 1955 Shiloah moved to Paris to specialize in the study of flute at the Conservatoire while starting his …
Susana Weich-Shahak
… Born in Argentina, lives in Israel since 1958. PhD degree in Musicology at the Tel Aviv University (1986); BA and MA in … 1973, research on the Sephardi Musical Tradition at the Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University, … Spanish Culture Ministry research grants for a comparative study of Sephardic and Spanish Oral tradition. …
Samuel Adler
… Massachusetts. There the young Samuel Adler displayed his musical talents at an early age. He became his father’s … of four books: Choral Conducting, Sight Singing , The Study of Orchestration , and the autobiographical Building … abroad. (According to: 'Samuel Adler' in Milken Archive of Jewish Music. For the full biography click here ) …
Nikolai Kaufman
… Musicologist, folklorist and composer Nikolay (or Nikolaï) … dedicated unfailing efforts to the documentation and study of the Jewish traditions of Bulgaria. Although his publications on …