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Edith (Esther) Gerson Kiwi
… with Robert Lachman of the Jerusalem Archive for Oriental music, and dedicated herself to teaching and to ethnomusicological research. She worked closely with Lachmann as … which was then part of the greater Palestine Institute of Folklore and Ethnology. In 1963 she founded the Museum of …
David Halperin
… Ph.D. in Musicology from Tel Aviv University. Chairman of the Department of Musicology at Tel Aviv University until his retirement in … project of cataloguing the Beregovski collection of Yiddish folk music. (*The photo is taken from shira-ovedet website) …
Andre Hajdu
… after the war at the prestigious Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. There he studied under Endre Szervánszky … 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
… studies, 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
… (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He continued … 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 of Ethnomusicology (1970–72); for the Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council, he was editor (1977–70), coeditor (with …
Robert Lachmann
… It was there that Lachmann was first exposed to non-Western music and folklore, and he began working on transcriptions of the … the seeds for his doctorate research of North African music. After the war, Lachmann began to study musicology …
Leo Levi
… first scholar to devote research to the Italian Jewish oral musical traditions. However, his role in the field of Jewish … 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
… From a young age, he actively participated in his father's musical pursuits, serving as a choir conductor in the … 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 …
Joel Engel
… written by James Loeffler . … Composer, arranger, music editor, a member of the St. Petersburg School of … and one of the founders of the Society for Jewish Folk Music … Joel Engel …