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Michal Smoira-Cohn
Born in Tel Aviv, Michal Smoira-Cohn studied at the Palestine Academy of Music (…
Velvel Pasternak
The JMRC mourns the passing of Velvel Pasternak, scholar of Hassidic music and founder…
Avraham Soltes
Avraham Soltes was born on March 3, 1917, in New York City, to parents who recently…
Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa
Jacques Stroumsa was born in Salonika in 1913, the son of a distinguished teacher and…
Ramon Tasat
Ramón Tasat was born in Buenos Aires. He learned Ladino at his grandmother’s knee. He…
Victor Tunkel
In Memoriam
The Jewish Music Music Research Centre bemoans the loss of Victor…
Viktor Ullmann
Viktor Ullmann was born in Teschen (now Český Těšín), Czech Republic on January 1, 1898…
Chemjo Vinaver
Born in Warsaw to a Hassidic family. He commenced his studies in Warsaw and continued in…
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Esther R. Warkov
Esther Warkov's seminal contributions to the study of Arab music and Arab-Jewish…
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Daniel Meir Weil
In the field of Jewish musicology, he earned a second PhD from the Hebrew University of…