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Avner Bahat
… that established Kibbutz Nachshon. In parallel with his work at the kibbutz, he traveled one day a week to Tel Aviv … (1939–1973): Integration of Traditional Elements in Musical Work. For many years, Bahat has been involved in explaining … of Yemenite Jews - piyyut-melody-dance. They conducted fieldwork that included recordings and survey films in …
Moses Beregovski
… the years of 1930-1948. During this extended period he worked to assemble manuscripts and recordings collected by the Culture League, An-Ski, Joel Engel , and his own fieldwork. Joachim Braun offers a different chronological …
Abraham Eilam-Amzallag
… and composition with Leon Shidelovsky. He composed many works and songs, and worked as a flutist and composer in … of Music at the University of Haifa. He lectures in the fields of folklore and musicology at universities in Israel. … of North Africa and published books and articles in this field. Dr. Eilam Amzallag won various prizes for his works …
Andre Hajdu
… Festival (1955). All these interests were to accompany his work throughout his career. In the aftermath of the failed … where he joined the JMRC upon Israel Adler’s invitation. He worked jointly with Yaacov Mazor in the research of Hassidic … studies and seminal JMRC publications in these two fields. Hajdu has to be credited with the concept of …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… settling in Jerusalem in 1906. In Jerusalem, he began working as a cantor and music teacher at the Hebrew … of Science in Vienna, along with a phonograph to use in his field work. In 1914, Idelsohn published the first volume of … (1913). Idelsohn’s enormous literary output, as well as his field recordings (which number over 1,000) laid the …
Israel J. Katz
… he studied privately with Edith Gerson-Kiwi and undertook field research among the Sephardic communities of Israel. He … studies and wrote numerous articles. His most recent work is related to a historical research on 'Oriental' …
Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… and cantorial pedagogue. There he also began his life’s work notating the great heritage of Eastern European … his retirement from full-time academia, Kalib began work on his monumental volume, The Musical Tradition of The … As the books also largely comprise notations of Kalib’s field work with over one hundred traditional Ashkenazic …
Robert Lachmann
… exposed to non-Western music and folklore, and he began working on transcriptions of the prisoner’s songs. His … a dissertation on the urban music of Tunisia, based on his field recordings from several research expeditions in the … community, material that served as the base for his seminal work, Jewish Cantillation and Song in the Isle of Djerba …
Leo Levi
… Jewish oral musical traditions. However, his role in the field of Jewish ethnomusicology, and in particular in the … (1964), Levi obtained a copy of the Rome reels and worked as Research Fellow at the Jewish Music Research … Levi also conducted an impressive amount of independent fieldwork, at times in collaboration with Italy's leading …
Eric Werner
… research, Werner has conducted research in the field of Jewish music, on topics such as comparative … and more. His compositions include mainly Jewish liturgical works, in addition to choral compositions, songs, and instrumental works. Sources: Encyclopedia Judaica ; Concise Encyclopedia …