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Nissan Cohen-Melamed
… Already at a young age Melamed showed interest in music. He used to visit the various synagogues in his area … at last performed as a soloist. His father encouraged his musical interests, making him memorize the weekly Parasha. … Hanukkah. Some of his songs achieved the Status of Hebrew folk songs (Shirei Eretz Yisrael), ' Layla Bekna'an ' being …
Joseph Dorfman
… at the Odessa Academy (1958-1965), and later studied Musicology and Composition at the Gnessin Musical Institute in Moscow (1967-1971), receiving his PhD … Europe, focusing on the work of the Society of Jewish Folk Music . As part of his research, he found lost works of …
Nikolai Kaufman
… Musicologist, folklorist and composer Nikolay (or Nikolaï) … Kaufmann) is considered 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 studies about …
Eleanor Gordon Mlotek
… She attended the Yiddish High School of the Sholem Aleichem Folks Institute, and was a graduate of Hunter College. In … to attend the first ever Yiddish linguistics and folklore courses at UCLA, taught by Weinreich. It was there … and quickly gained a name for herself as a scholar of music and folklore. In 1970, she and Yosl began writing a …
Joseph Mlotek
… in the National Library of Israel. … Yiddish educator, folklorist and writer … 0 … Yiddish songs … Folk songs … Joseph Mlotek …