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Israel J. Katz
… Armistead and Joseph H. Silverman (d. 1989) on the series Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews. Katz served as editor of Ethnomusicology (1970–72); for the Yearbook of the International … ). He was a founding member of the American Society for Jewish Music (1974) and served as chairman of the board …
Robert Lachmann
… It was there that Lachmann was first exposed to non-Western music and folklore, and he began working on transcriptions of the … and paraliturgical musical traditions of the local Jewish community, material that served as the base for his …
Leo Levi
… was the first scholar to devote research to the Italian Jewish oral musical traditions. However, his role in the field of Jewish … National Radio as a partner in the documentation of Italy's folklore. Between 1954 and 1959 he contacted almost fifty …
Menashe Ravina
… From a young age, he actively participated in his father's musical pursuits, serving as a choir conductor in the … studies on Israel's national anthem, "Hatikvah," and the folk dances of Baruch Agadati. During his early years in … actively engaged in the musical circles of Eastern European Jewish musicians, documenting and arranging Jewish folk …
Joel Engel
… written by James Loeffler . … Composer, arranger, music editor, a member of the St. Petersburg School of Jewish composers, and one of the founders of the Society for Jewish Folk Music … Joel Engel …
Solomon Rosowsky
… Law at the University of Kiev , Rosowsky went on to study music at the St. Petersburg Imperial Conservatory under … He helped to found the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music in 1908 and served as the musical director of the …
Amnon Shiloah
… Born in Lanus, Argentina in 1928 to a family of Jewish immigrants from Syria, Shiloah returned with his … of Aliyat Hano’ar in northern Israel where he started his musical studies. In 1947 he enrolled at the Hebrew … to Israel, he became the Director of the Department of Folklore at Kol Israel, a post he filled from 1965 to 1968, …
Nissan Cohen-Melamed
… Already at a young age Melamed showed interest in music. He used to visit the various synagogues in his area and listen to Jewish cantillation. After some time he began singing with … Hanukkah. Some of his songs achieved the Status of Hebrew folk songs (Shirei Eretz Yisrael), ' Layla Bekna'an ' being …
Joseph Dorfman
… at the Odessa Academy (1958-1965), and later studied Musicology and Composition at the Gnessin Musical Institute … as artistic director of the International Festivals of Jewish Art Music, initiated in 1992. As a composer, … Europe, focusing on the work of the Society of Jewish Folk Music . As part of his research, he found lost works of …
Nikolai Kaufman
… Musicologist, folklorist and composer Nikolay (or Nikolaï) … unfailing efforts to the documentation and study of the Jewish traditions of Bulgaria. Although his publications on … full evaluation of Kaufman’s contributions to the study of Jewish musical traditions is a desideratum because many of …