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Irene Heskes
… Born in Brooklyn, New York. Was a Music researcher who specialized in Jewish music. Her research included the compilation of a large … collection of Yiddish theater music. She published many articles and books concerning secular and sacred Jewish …
Jehoash Hirshberg
… was an educator. From an early age, he was immersed in music, beginning with violin studies and later switching to the viola. As a member of the Gadna Youth Orchestra, he participated in a competition in the Netherlands, where the … States, he also served as a lecturer in the university’s Department of Music. Returning to Israel, Hirshberg joined the …
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 … of the Yemenite community in Palestine. Idelsohn was particularly interested in this community because he … for an intelligent profession. I secured a tutor and started studying. Suddenly I felt an inner call for music and …
Rachel Kollender
… Lecturer, Musicologist and Ethnomusicologist, with special interest in … from 1935-45. Teaching Positions: Bar-Ilan University, department of music, department of communication; Oranim College; Talpiot College; …
Mark Kligman
… Mark L. Kligman is the Mickey Katz Chair Professor of Jewish Music at the Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles, a Chair … a chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts. Picture courtesy of Judith Pinnolis, JMWC … …
Ruth Katz
… Ruth Katz is an Israeli musicologist, a pioneer of academic musicology in Israel, professor emerita at the Hebrew … the general historiography and sociology of culture and art, to aesthetics, and to ethnography and anthropology. …
Israel J. Katz
… University (1974–75); York College (CUNY), chairing the Department of Fine and Performing Arts; and Hebrew Union College as a visiting lecturer. He … of the Sephardic Jews. Katz served as editor of Ethnomusicology (1970–72); for the Yearbook of the International …
Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… immigrants, Sholom Kalib was a mainstay of Jewish music in mid-twentieth century Chicago, serving as a … he began his lifelong engagement with Western music theory, completing a doctorate at Northwestern … Services (2005), and Vol. 3: The Sabbath Services in two parts – Friday Evening (2017) and The Sabbath Day (2023). …
Robert Lachmann
… It was there that Lachmann was first exposed to non-Western music and folklore, and he began working on transcriptions … to 1933 Lachmann worked as a librarian for the music department of the Berlin State Library, heading a project to … Music. Lachmann was appointed the editor of their quarterly journal, Zeitschrift für vergleichende …
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 ethnomusicology in Italy, … musical traditions, Jewish and Christian. Levi became part of the ethnographic team of the CNSMP and was granted …