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Abraham Eilam-Amzallag
… Aliyah. He studied at the Tel Aviv Teachers' College of Music and the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. He studied playing the flute with Uri … in Israel. Amzallag-Eilam's musical style combine Eastern Melos with Western compositional techniques. His …
Rivka Havassy
… studies, with a focus on Ladino traditional oral poetry; musical and folk culture of the Sephardi community of … Participated in various research projects in the Jewish Music Research Center, among them: Incipitario sefardí: El … The Historic Recordings of Haim Effendi of Turkey; Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs from the EMI …
Alberto Hemsi
… Born in Kasaba, Turkey. Studied music in Izmir, and later in Milan. Worked as musical director in various synagogues in Egypt (1927-1957) … many works in which he tried to combine Western and Eastern elements. Additional biographies, written by Israel …
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 … Perisan, Bukharian, Oriental Sephardi, Moroccan, German, Eastern European and Hassidic Jewish communities in …
Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… immigrants, Sholom Kalib was a mainstay of Jewish music in mid-twentieth century Chicago, serving as a … also began his life’s work notating the great heritage of Eastern European cantorial tradition, transcribing and … he began his lifelong engagement with Western music theory, completing a doctorate at Northwestern …
Robert Lachmann
… It was there that Lachmann was first exposed to non-Western music and folklore, and he began working on transcriptions … the seeds for his doctorate research of North African music. After the war, Lachmann began to study musicology … was to set their traditions in the larger context of Near Eastern musical practices, thereby creating an historic and …
Leo Levi
… first scholar to devote research to the Italian Jewish oral musical traditions. However, his role in the field of Jewish ethnomusicology, and in particular in the development of … and folk songs across the Mediterranean and in central and Eastern Asia. While most of his fieldwork still needs to be …
Menashe Ravina
… From a young age, he actively participated in his father's musical pursuits, serving as a choir conductor in the … cultural life of the Yishuv. He founded the "Institute for Music Dissemination," where he published numerous books, … Ochs. He was actively engaged in the musical circles of Eastern European Jewish musicians, documenting and arranging …
Aron Marko Rothmüller
… Indiana University. Rothmüller composed chamber and choral music, many based on traditional Sephardic and Ashkenazi … (i.e. modern Hebrew) songs. As an author he published The Music of the Jew s: An Historical Appreciation (1953 and … Boscovich and Marc Lavry showing the networking between Eastern European Jewish composers who settled in British …
James Loeffler
… Ph.D. Columbia University, (2006), Dissertation: 'The Most Musical Nation: Jews, Culture and Nationalism in the Late … (1996); Founding Director, Vice-academic co-chair, Jewish Music Forum of the American Society for Jewish Music (New … music in Yiddish culture; history of klezmer music in Eastern Europe and the United States. … Researcher … James …