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Rivka Havassy
… studies, with a focus on Ladino traditional oral poetry; musical and folk culture of the Sephardi community of … 2007). Participated in various research projects in the Jewish Music Research Center, among them: Incipitario sefardí: El …
Alberto Hemsi
… Born in Kasaba, Turkey. Studied music in Izmir, and later in Milan. Worked as musical director in various synagogues in Egypt (1927-1957) … Sefardi (Jerusalem, 1995). Established the first Egyptian music-publishing house. Composed many works in which he …
Irene Heskes
… Born in Brooklyn, New York. Was a Music researcher who specialized in Jewish music. Her research included the compilation of a … many articles and books concerning secular and sacred Jewish music. Among her books are Studies in Jewish Music …
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 … Idelsohn was greatly impacted by the diversity of the Jewish community living in Palestine, and embarked on a …
Rachel Kollender
… Lecturer, Musicologist and Ethnomusicologist, with special interest in Jewish music, Karaite music, women and music in jewish societies, music in Europe from 1935-45. Teaching …
Mark Kligman
… Mark L. Kligman is the Mickey Katz Chair Professor of Jewish Music at the Herb Alpert School of Music, University of … libraries. He is also a board member of the Association for Jewish Studies and is the editor of the association's …
Israel J. Katz
… 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 … Katz concentrated his studies on the Sephardic and Oriental Jewish communities of the Mediterranean region, and on the …
Eric Karsenti
… Unit at the Ministry of Health. Research interests in Jewish music: the musical traditions of the Algerian Jews; Written sources of …
Sholom Kalib
… and conductor of Synagogue choirs. As a composer, he wrote music for Sabbath and High Holiday services and wrote … melodies. Full biography see at the Milken archive of Jewish Music website . *The photo was taken from the Milken archive of Jewish Music website. … Cantor and musicolgist … Sholom Kalib …
Robert Lachmann
… It was there that Lachmann was first exposed to non-Western music and folklore, and he began working on transcriptions … and paraliturgical musical traditions of the local Jewish community, material that served as the base for his seminal work, Jewish Cantillation and Song in the Isle of Djerba (1940). …