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Avner Bahat

… the Department of Musicology at Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew University, the Oranim Seminary, the College of Music … places in Israel, where they found communities from Yemen singing and dancing. As part of this study, they produced … (' The music in my life'). For the full autobiography in Hebrew see here ) See also: Avner Bahat's official website …

Abraham Eilam-Amzallag

… Flute and Strings. He completed his Ph.D. studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and submitted his doctoral dissertation on " Modal Aspects of the Singing of Supplications ("Bakkashot") Among Morocco Jews", … and received a doctorate in 1986. In addition, he studied Hebrew medieval poetry, Arabic and English literature. …

Ruth HaCohen (Pinczower)

… is the Artur Rubinstein Professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she has held various … and originality in the Humanities); Composing Power, Singing Freedom: The Interplay of Music and Politics in the West (2017, in Hebrew, with Yaron Ezrahi, Polonsky Prize). She was honored …

Abraham Zvi Idelsohn

… he began working as a cantor and music teacher at the Hebrew Teacher’s college. Idelsohn was greatly impacted by … first volume of his seminal ten-volume work, Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies, which was a comprehensive study of … cantors had less voice than he, but much sweeter, and their singing was with more Jewish feeling. From my father I …

Nissan Cohen-Melamed

… and listen to Jewish cantillation. After some time he began singing with the choirs of these synagogues, and at last … educational mission to Mexico City, where he directed the Hebrew Sephardic School, and officiated as cantor in the … mission, this time in Teheran, where he directed the Koresh Hebrew School. In 1980, the Academy of music in Tel Aviv …

Nikolai Kaufman

… a very religious man who spent most of his time reading and singing psalms from holy books. He loved to sing old songs … or occasion (religious or secular). The songs are in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and Bulgaria. Also the extensive … Voix Bulgares . Choral arrangements in Yiddish, Ladino and Hebrew performed by various choirs and recorded on separate …