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Nikolai Kaufman
… Musicologist, folklorist and composer Nikolay (or Nikolaï) … from neighboring Rumania. Most Jews left Bulgaria after World War II. Kaufman dedicated efforts to record all Jewish … first album, Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares , are renowned worldwide. The second album of the choir (1988) went on to …
Eric Mandell
… Mandell passed away in Philadelphia on February 6, 1988. Musically gifted since his youth, he trained under prominent … scores (manuscript and printed) and books about Jewish music while writing for journals on Jewish music and music … one of the largest private libraries of Jewish music in the world." He was not exaggerating. His collection compares in …
Eleanor Gordon Mlotek
… the oldest continuous venue for Yiddish theater in the world. Moish is a member of the board of directors of the … and quickly gained a name for herself as a scholar of music and folklore. In 1970, she and Yosl began writing a … highly-regarded and best-selling Yiddish songbooks in the world. After Yosl’s death in 2000, Chana went on to …
Joseph Mlotek
… He also published Yiddish poetry in newspapers. He spent World War II in Shanghai and moved to the United States in …
Cancionero Sefardi
… composer and folklorist Alberto Hems i (1898-1975) before World War II, this collection remained unedited until its … by the JMRC. The book includes 170 titles and 66 musical transcriptions with many musical and textual variants representing a wide variety of …
Orbis Musicae
… This is the online version of Orbis Musicae, an international musicological journal published by the Department of … The pages of Orbis Musicae contain studies by some of the world’s best-known musicologists and are often illustrated …
Music in the World of Islam
… … Detroit, Mich. … Wayne State University Press … … 1995 … Music … History … Maqam … Influence … Islam … Theory … Amnon Shiloah … Music in the World of Islam …
Observations on Practices of Nusach in America
… The move from 'Old-World' Europe to modern and late-modern America, so far as … singing. … 101 … 2 … 3 … Austin, TX … The Society for Asian Music … … 33 … 2002 … Liturgy … Modes … Shteiger … America … …
Music in Terezin, 1941-1945
… … Beaufort Books … … 1985 … History … Holocaust … Terezin … World War II - 2nd World War - WW2 … Czechoslovakia … Joza Karas … Music in Terezin, 1941-1945 …
Maramaros: The lost Jewish music of Transylvania
… was a Jewish community in Transylvania that, prior to World War II, had a rich musical heritage. After the Shoah, not a single one of the area's musicians returned from concentration camps. Recently, the …