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Alexander L. Ringer
… Alexander L. Ringer was an American research musicologist and educator of Dutch and Polish descent. He … University (1983), and Heidelberg University - Academy for Jewish Studies (1983). Ringer also gave guest lectures at … Society, Society for Ethnomusicology and the International Folk Music Council. Ringer also served for many years as …
Michal Smoira-Cohn
… Michal Smoira-Cohn studied at the Palestine Academy of Music (graduated 1947), and later at Uppsala University in … in Jerusalem. Her writings discuss subjects such as Israeli folksongs, and various phases in the history of Jewish music. Sources: Toeplitz, Uri, Yohanan Boehm, and …
Avraham Soltes
… life: Judica; the struggle in Palestine to forge an Israel; Music, in all shapes and forms. Even as a rabbinical student … many cultural and educational activities that interpreted Jewish art, music, and literature. He was chairman of the … of Italian love- songs, Ladino prayer- songs, American folksongs, Yiddish lullabies, and Hebrew melodies; to his …
Victor Tunkel
… In Memoriam The Jewish Music Music Research Centre bemoans the loss of Victor … extensive sections on Biblical cantillation, Jewish folk music of various kinds, Jewish musicological research, …
Efraim Yaakov
… me at least, he was also an ethnographer and an excellent folklore researcher. I remember once sending him some documentation and he responded, 'It's folklore, not history.' He may have meant negativity, but … and especially recruited people on the subject of the music of the Jews of southern Yemen ... '. Sources (in …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … The author recommended that Geshuri free himself from the “folkloristic-scientific tendencies” of his radio lectures in …
Leib Glanz
… gestures from many different genres, including romantic music, Israeli folk songs, and Jewish liturgical music from communities throughout the …
Leon Algazi
… Algazi was born in Iepuresti, Romania in 1890. He studied music in Vienna and Paris and graduated from the Ecole … Paris , a position he held for many years. His interest in Jewish music and folklore was sparked by early studies with musicologist …
David Nowakowsky
… concerts comprised of his own liturgical and paraliturgical music, with instrumental accompaniment. As a result of this … such, David Nowakowsky was part of an influential circle of Jewish intellectuals including Saul Tchernikovsky, Chaim … arrangment of the poem was later replaced by a popular folk tune, which is the melody for the National Israeli …
Uri Aharon
… researcher, author of two books and many articles in music, plays classical, Jewish and folk music on the flute. For forty-two years he was a senior …