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Joachim Stutschewsky
… cellist, composer, arranger, and writer, a founder of the Society for the Development of Jewish Music in Vienna, and a cellist in … Quartet. Immediately after immigration, he encouraged Israeli composers to write music based on Jewish heritage. …
Boaz Tarsi
… Boaz Tarsi is a composer, theorist, and a singer. His compositions for chamber … instruments have been performed and broadcast throughout the United States, Israel and Europe, hosted by institutions … performers such as the New York Chamber Music Society, the Israeli Sinfonietta, NYC 92nd street YWHA, the Bruno Walter …
Amalia Kedem
… Amalia Kedem is the Music Curator and an archivist of the music collection at the National Library of Israel. She … liturgical music (PhD) and the ways in which they express Israeli and Ashkenazi identity. She taught Jewish music at …
Simha Arom
… A French-Israeli ethnomusicologist who is recognized as a world expert on the music of central Africa, especially that of the Central African Republic. His books include African …
Max Brod
… Czech writer, poet, playwright, essayist and composer. The first biographer of Janáček. Also supported couleurlocale. In his book about Israeli music (in German) titled Die Musik Israels (1951), he coined (with Boskovich ) the “Mediterranean style”—a term in vogue in the 1940's and …
Joseph Dorfman
… in Odessa, Ukraine. He studied Piano and Composition at the Odessa Academy (1958-1965), and later studied Musicology and Composition at the Gnessin Musical Institute in Moscow (1967-1971), … Encyclopedia Judaica . ( Photo credit: Lili Dorfman) … Israeli composer … Joseph Dorfman …
Ezra Fleischer
… Literature (1959), was professor of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He published extensively … piyyut, medieval Hebrew poetry and Jewish prayers and was the leading scholar of these subjects. To view the website … To view Fleischer's publications, click here . … Romanian-Israeli Hebrew poet and philologist … Ezra Fleischer …
Eric Mandell
… youth, he trained under prominent cantors of his time. At the age of twenty, the Jewish community of Bochum engaged him as cantor, choir … and importance to those found in other major American and Israeli institutions. For this purpose, Gratz College and …