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Naomi Cohn-Zentner

… Hamakom Center for the Study of Cultures of Place in the Modern Jewish World and a visiting fellow at the Oxford …

Michael Lukin

… and folklore, Hasidic musical thought, and Yiddish modern poetry at the Hebrew University and Bar-Ilan …

Yizhak Edel

… establishing The Company for Jewish Music, after the model of the Society for Jewish Folk Music. The company held …

… him in his obituary as: “one of the most under-estimated modern composers; the originality and profound elaboration … by Paganini with Piano accompaniment (1919-22) displaying modern harmonic influences. Achron’s entire oeuvre combines … greater awareness of a new Jewish music, he recommended to modern composers the use of more recognized elements of …

Samuel Alman

… Nisson Spivak and Solomon Sulzer. He made use of elaborate modern harmony in his arrangements, evoking the …

Alexander A. Krein

… there, and he became a prominent figure in the school of modern Russian composition. Krein’s early work was deeply … on Jewish music, Krein returned to composing music in the modern Russian style. One of the most noted works from this …

Gustav Mahler

… to emulate that style in his own writing while using a modernist approach. Though Mahler made several attempts at …

Mordekhai Seter

… University) from 1951 until his retirement in 1985. A modest figure, he declined any institutional role, and since … these pieces he further developed the use of the original modes that he had invented for Midnight Vigil and … Jerusalem . He created during these decades 33 diatonic modes, which served as his core pitch material for 35 of his …