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Abraham Wolf Binder

… a family of cantors and into a world enriched by synagogue music and Jewish folklore. He was a member of his father’s synagogue choir …

… in Israel , is most known for his often-performed choral music. A 2001 Israel Prize laureate, he is probably the most … was sharpened by studies under Boskovich (who supported folklorism à la Bartók) in the Tel-Aviv Academy of Music … that there is common basis, a certain pentatonic scale, for Jewish cantilation – Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, and Yemenite alike, …

Abraham Eilam-Amzallag

… Aliyah. He studied at the Tel Aviv Teachers' College of Music and the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. He studied … at the University of Haifa. He lectures in the fields of folklore and musicology at universities in Israel. … Western compositional techniques. His works fuse Oriental Jewish melisma and modern techniques. In 1994 he …

Gershon Ephros

… grandfather, Cantor Moses Fromberg. He received his first musical training while being part of his grandfather's … 1918, he was appointed cantor of Congregation Beth El in Norfolk, Virginia, and later became cantor at Congregation Beth … in 1957. Apart fom his cantorial career, Ephros taught Jewish music in Hebrew schools in New York and at the Hebrew …

Walter Zev Feldman

… Columbia University. Researcher on Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music, as well as the literature of the Ottoman and Central … Khevrisa: European Klezmer Music was issued by Smithsonian-Folkways in 2000. He is currently preparing at the JMRC a …

Gila Flam

… Ph. D., University of California Los Angeles, Department of Music, 1988. Her thesis: Singing for Survival: Songs of the … Press in 1992. Director of the Music Department of the Jewish National and University Library. Research interests: Yiddish folk song with emphasis on the Holocaust period. Currently …

Edith (Esther) Gerson Kiwi

… with Robert Lachman of the Jerusalem Archive for Oriental music, and dedicated herself to teaching and to … which was then part of the greater Palestine Institute of Folklore and Ethnology. In 1963 she founded the Museum of … dealing with the correlation and mutual influence found in Jewish, Christian and Muslim musical traditions. See also …

Andre Hajdu

… 5 March 1932 to a characteristically assimilated Hungarian-Jewish family and having survived the Holocaust (a subject … after the war at the prestigious Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. There he studied under Endre Szervánszky … a deep interest in ethnography, the relation between folklore and contemporary composition and in pedagogy. He …

Rivka Havassy

… studies, with a focus on Ladino traditional oral poetry; musical and folk culture of the Sephardi community of Thessaloniki; … 2007). Participated in various research projects in the Jewish Music Research Center, among them: Incipitario …

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 continued … love the synagogal modes and “Zemiroth” as well as Jewish Folk-Songs. At home I received an orthodox education and …