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Edith (Esther) Gerson Kiwi

… which was then part of the greater Palestine Institute of Folklore and Ethnology. In 1963 she founded the Museum of …

David Halperin

… project of cataloguing the Beregovski collection of Yiddish folk music. (*The photo is taken from shira-ovedet website) …

… a deep interest in ethnography, the relation between folklore and contemporary composition and in pedagogy. He … in Jewish topics, not necessarily by employing or quoting folkloric themes that he researched, but rather by …

Rivka Havassy

… with a focus on Ladino traditional oral poetry; musical and folk culture of the Sephardi community of Thessaloniki; contacts between Ladino folk poetry and the Greek culture; early recordings of …

Abraham Zvi Idelsohn

… love the synagogal modes and “Zemiroth” as well as Jewish Folk-Songs. At home I received an orthodox education and … are of interest to the scholars. 2) The Jewish song is a folk-art, created by the people. It has no art-song, and no …

Israel J. Katz

… Armistead and Joseph H. Silverman (d. 1989) on the series Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews. Katz served as editor … for the Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council, he was editor (1977–70), coeditor (with … of the Mediterranean region, and on the traditional folk music of Spain, with special studies on the …

Robert Lachmann

… that Lachmann was first exposed to non-Western music and folklore, and he began working on transcriptions of the …

Leo Levi

… National Radio as a partner in the documentation of Italy's folklore. Between 1954 and 1959 he contacted almost fifty … liturgical repertoires, as well as Jewish liturgical and folk songs across the Mediterranean and in central and …

Menashe Ravina

… studies on Israel's national anthem, "Hatikvah," and the folk dances of Baruch Agadati. During his early years in … European Jewish musicians, documenting and arranging Jewish folk music. Ravina was a dedicated educator and taught at … Come to the Land), for which Ravina wrote the lyrics to folk melodies. Furthermore, he composed melodies for beloved …