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Israel Adler
… Institut de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and musical studies. During his thirteen-year sojourn … on the diffusion of art music in certain Western European Jewish communities prior to the 19th century, published a few years …
Avner Bahat
… of Musicology. In 1981, he established the Center for Jewish Music at Beit Hatfutsot, and from 1984 he began producing records, and later CDs, of Jewish music. Among the many CDs he recorded are Piyyutim … survey films in various places in Israel, where they found communities from Yemen singing and dancing. As part of this …
Eduard Birnbaum
… and para-liturgical musical practices of the major European Jewish communities. To supplement the material that he received … collection … Hebrew Union College … Cantor … Collector … Jewish Liturgy … Eduard Birnbaum …
Abraham Baer
… , Poland . He worked as a cantor and teacher in several communities throughout western Prussia before settling as a … and Samuel Naumbourg , covering the liturgy of the entire Jewish calendar year. This major anthology by Baer, cantor … until his death), a minor corner of the German-speaking Jewish world by all accounts, had everlasting effects. Four …
Mordechai Breuer
… There, he led prayers in a style that combined the various communities of the institution's children. Breuer began his … and holidays. In Israel, Breuer taught the history of Jewish music at the conservatory. In the 1950s, he taught at … was made systematically according to topics in the Jewish calendar as follows: introduction and personal …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… Latvia (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He … Idelsohn was greatly impacted by the diversity of the Jewish community living in Palestine, and embarked on a … Moroccan, German, Eastern European and Hassidic Jewish communities in Palestine and throughout the Diaspora. This …
Israel J. Katz
… and undertook field research among the Sephardic communities of Israel. He returned to UCLA and took his … ). He was a founding member of the American Society for Jewish Music (1974) and served as chairman of the board … Katz concentrated his studies on the Sephardic and Oriental Jewish communities of the Mediterranean region, and on the …
Robert Lachmann
… Africa , recording and documenting the musical practices of communities in Tripoli , Tunisia , Kabylia, the Isle of … and paraliturgical musical traditions of the local Jewish community, material that served as the base for his seminal work, Jewish Cantillation and Song in the Isle of Djerba (1940). …
Leo Levi
… was the first scholar to devote research to the Italian Jewish oral musical traditions. However, his role in the field of Jewish ethnomusicology, and in particular in the development … twenty-seven liturgical traditions preserved in the Jewish communities of over twenty Italian cities. RAI personnel …
Salamone Rossi
… has been spilled reviewing the vast musical contribution of Jewish-Italian composer Salamone de Rossi, not much is known … speculated that Salamone de Rossi was the son of renowned Jewish historian Azariah de’ Rossi, but this seems unlikely … active in the Jewish ghetto, as well as in Christian communities and in the court. It is postulated that Rossi’s …