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Edith (Esther) Gerson Kiwi
… harpsichord performance under teacher Wanda Landowska at the Ecole de Musique Ancienne. In 1933, she finished her doctorate under Besseler at the University of Heidelberg with a dissertation on the … appointed professor of Tel Aviv University in 1969, only three years after the department was established. Her …
Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… The son of Ukranian-Jewish immigrants, Sholom Kalib was a … well-regarded hazzan, choirmaster, and cantorial pedagogue. There he also began his life’s work notating the great … liturgical music, repertoire, and varying traditions. Three volumes made it to print: Vol. 1: History and …
Robert Lachmann
… was born in Berlin and began his formal education at the University of Berlin and at the University of London, with a focus on French and Arabic … vergleichende Musikwissenschaft , which was in print for three years until mounting pressures lead to the close of …
David de Sola Pool
… Rabbi Dr. David de Sola Pool was the foremost Sephardic rabbi in the United States during the middle decades of the 20th … Shearith Israel for the duration of his life, except for three years that he spent in the land of Israel 1919-1922. …
Yehuda Ratzaby
… Prof. Yehuda Ratzaby was born in the small village Sava'n in central Yemen, a two-hour walk from Sanaa. His father, Rabbi Yeh'ya, was one of the leaders of the community … Prof. Yehuda Ratzaby lived in the city of Tel Aviv and had three daughters and a son named Amitay who was killed during …
Solomon Rosowsky
… Riga in 1878. After completing his first degree in Law at the University of Kiev , Rosowsky went on to study music at the St. Petersburg Imperial Conservatory under teachers … tradition. The massive work is broken up into three main sections: the first defines the basic functions …
Amnon Shiloah
… Syria in 1931. In 1942, as a teenager, he took upon himself the dangerous journey of moving from Syria to Mandatory British Palestine/Eretz Israel through the Golan Heights. He joined the Meir Shfeya boarding school … RISM, series B/X, 1979 and series B/Xa, 2003), condensed three decades of persevering bibliographical and …
Joachim Stutschewsky
… cellist, composer, arranger, and writer, a founder of the Society for the Development of Jewish Music in Vienna, and a cellist in … for their works to be premiered at that venue. He won three Engel Prizes (1958, 1959, 1966) for his compositions. …
Nikolai Kaufman
… as one of Bulgaria's foremost music scholars. Although the vast majority of his academic and artistic output was in the field of Bulgaria folk music, with strong emphasis on … Grammy Award for world music (1989). This album includes three arrangements by Kaufman. We learn from Dr. Sabin …
Eleanor Gordon Mlotek
… in New York in a Yiddish-speaking family. She attended the Yiddish High School of the Sholem Aleichem Folks Institute, and was a graduate of … music archivist in 1984. Together, the Mloteks published three anthologies, Mir Trogn a Gezang (We Are Carrying a …