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Edwin Seroussi
… in Montevideo, Uruguay, Prof. Seroussi started there his music studies (violin, theory and composition). He … to Israel in 1971 where he studied at the Department of Musicology at the undergraduate and graduate levels … stresses the agency of individuals in the shaping of folk and popular culture, social networks and the role of …
Yehiel 'Adaki
… and studied their repertoire. He had a good voice and musical hearing, as well as a good memory and perception, … with his choir, and lectured about the Jewish Yemenite folklore. Additionally, 'Adaki worked with the musician … who transcribed some of the Yemenite songs. The Israeli folksong Ki Tavo'u El Haarets [6] was written by 'Adaki …
Moses Beregovski
… born in the Ukraine in 1892. He was exposed to liturgical music at an early age through his father who was a teacher … According to the manuscript, Beregovski was the head of the Folk Music Division from 1928 to 1936. He then moved on to the Folklore Department of the Kiev Conservatory, and from …
Abraham Wolf Binder
… a family of cantors and into a world enriched by synagogue music and Jewish folklore. He was a member of his father’s synagogue choir … melodies). He continued his involvement in Jewish choral music, forming the Hadassah Choral Union in 1916 and the …
Yehezkiel Braun
… in Israel , is most known for his often-performed choral music. A 2001 Israel Prize laureate, he is probably the most … was sharpened by studies under Boskovich (who supported folklorism à la Bartók) in the Tel-Aviv Academy of Music … 1982 as a professor, until 1990. Braun’s attraction for folklore is consistent throughout his life, although he …
Abraham Eilam-Amzallag
… Aliyah. He studied at the Tel Aviv Teachers' College of Music and the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. He studied playing the flute with Uri … at the University of Haifa. He lectures in the fields of folklore and musicology at universities in Israel. …
Gershon Ephros
… grandfather, Cantor Moses Fromberg. He received his first musical training while being part of his grandfather's … 1918, he was appointed cantor of Congregation Beth El in Norfolk, Virginia, and later became cantor at Congregation Beth … 1957. Apart fom his cantorial career, Ephros taught Jewish music in Hebrew schools in New York and at the Hebrew Union …
Walter Zev Feldman
… University. Researcher on Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music, as well as the literature of the Ottoman and Central … research and published articles on classical and Sufi music in Turkey, the music and poetry of epic in Uzbekistan … Khevrisa: European Klezmer Music was issued by Smithsonian-Folkways in 2000. He is currently preparing at the JMRC a …
Gila Flam
… Ph. D., University of California Los Angeles, Department of Music, 1988. Her thesis: Singing for Survival: Songs of the … the University of Illinois Press in 1992. Director of the Music Department of the Jewish National and University Library. Research interests: Yiddish folk song with emphasis on the Holocaust period. Currently …
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 …