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Menahem Avidom
… and Composers Association), and The Public Council for Culture and Art. A prolific composer and known public figure … prominent composers who wrote arrangements for the unique Jewish-Yemenite artist and singer, Bracha Zefira, and based …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… all of his career. He is most closely associated with the Jewish community of Dubno (today in western Ukraine), but … assistant singers (m’shor’rim) to sing and lead services in Jewish communities throughout Eastern Europe. Because of the … became an acclaimed exponent of Jewish Eastern European culture and tradition. Christians as well as Jews responded …
Betty Olivero
… of the most prestigious Emet Prize for Art, Science and Culture (2015), an Israeli prize awarded annually for … contemporary compositional form, yet is inspired by ancient Jewish and other early musical traditions. Folk material …
Ronit Seter
… Musical Quarterly, Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Jewish Women Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Judaica, Tempo, … Conference on Music Since 1900, World Congress for Jewish Studies, and Israel Musicological Society. She also … received grants from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, Dan David Scholarship, National Endowment for the …
Herman Svet
… Berlin, which in those years was a city of refuge for many Jewish intellectuals who were fleeing Soviet Russia. Svet … Hitler came to power (1933). His articles were published in Jewish newspapers and periodicals in Yiddish, Russian, … Russian Jews in Music (1960), J ews in Russian Musical Culture in the Soviet Period (1968), Jewish Theater in …
Edwin Seroussi
… (2004-2008; 2014-2016; 2019-2020), was Director of the Jewish Music Research Centre from 2000 to 2023, and … research focuses on the sacred and secular musical cultures of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, interactions between Jewish and Islamic cultures (specifically in art music …
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 … characters, a visual icon symbolically linking Hebrew culture to the mainstream of early Western music history at …
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 from the Moroccan Jewish tradition by the payytan Rabbi David Bouzaglo, Yamim …
Moses Beregovski
… early age through his father who was a teacher at the Kiev Jewish Music School and a ba’al kore (official who reads the … established and directed the musical division of the Jewish Culture League in Kiev and served as the director …
Abraham Baer
… 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 … Hammarlund, Anders. A Prayer for Modernity: Politics and Culture in the World of Abraham Baer (1834-1894) . …