(101 results found)
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 … of the Department of Jewish Culture of the Institute for Literature under the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. …
Abraham Eilam-Amzallag
… he studied Hebrew medieval poetry, Arabic and English literature. Avraham Amzallag (Eilam) served as a musicology … Western compositional techniques. His works fuse Oriental Jewish melisma and modern techniques. In 1994 he … nine years from its establishment. For the first time the Jewish version of the Andalusian music was transcribed by …
Walter Zev Feldman
… Columbia University. Researcher on Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music, as well as the literature of the Ottoman and Central Asian Turks. Conducted … music and poetry of epic in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, and Jewish klezmer music in the United States. His book , Music …
Judit Frigyesi
… Music in Budapest. Her research focuses on the music and literature of the 19 th -20 th centuries in Europe and … of full liturgies of services with interviews) of the Jewish tradition recorded in East Europe and the largest … prose and photographs, the experience of the sound of Jewish prayer. … Musicologist … Judit Frigyesi …
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 … beginning of harmony. He acquainted me with the Chazanic literature of Weintraub, Sulzer, Lewandowski and others. He …
Israel J. Katz
… and Joseph H. Silverman (d. 1989) on the series Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews. Katz served as editor … ). 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 …
Yehuda Ratzaby
… studied there until 1939. He studied Arabic language and literature, Hebrew literature, and Bible, and received his Master's degree from … and was awarded a doctorate. From 1964, he taught Arabic-Jewish literature and medieval Hebrew literature at Bar-Ilan …
Amnon Shiloah
… Born in Lanus, Argentina in 1928 to a family of Jewish immigrants from Syria, Shiloah returned with his … at the Hebrew University where he studied Hebrew and Arabic Literature as well as Bible, graduating in 1951. He … As a teacher Shiloah contributed in Israel to the fields of Jewish ethnomusicology, especially the study of Judeo-Arabic …
Ezra Fleischer
… Fleischer (1928-2006), Israel Prize Laureate for Hebrew Literature (1959), was professor of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He … extensively on early piyyut, medieval Hebrew poetry and Jewish prayers and was the leading scholar of these …
Problems in the Study of Jewish Music
… Surveys problems in the research of Jewish music, from historical and methodological points of … address to the one of the most ecumenical congresses on Jewish music held after WWII. It delineates the future … 15-27 … Tel Aviv … Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature (Naidat Press) … … 1982 … Chronology … Research … …