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Yehuda Ratzaby
… and was awarded a doctorate. From 1964, he taught Arabic-Jewish literature and medieval Hebrew literature at Bar-Ilan …
Menashe Ravina
… Born in Pereyaslavl, Ukraine. Studied music in Germany, immigrated to Palestine in 1924 where he … Ravina published books and articles on different aspects of Jewish music and composed Hebrew folk songs, children's … and several piano pieces. Sources: Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music , Encyclopedia Judaica … Composer and writer … …
Josef (Yossele) Rosenblatt
… world that followed him. Sources: Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music , Encyclopedia Judaica . … Cantor and composer … …
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 … and theater director, and established the first Jewish Conservatory of Music. Rosowsky immigrated to …
Salamone Rossi
… Though much ink has been spilled reviewing the vast musical contribution of Jewish-Italian composer Salamone de Rossi, not much is known … speculated that Salamone de Rossi was the son of renowned Jewish historian Azariah de’ Rossi, but this seems unlikely …
Aron Marko Rothmüller
… Indiana University. Rothmüller composed chamber and choral music, many based on traditional Sephardic and Ashkenazi … collection is located at the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and can accessed … and historical information on Rothmüller and his important Jewish cultural organization, Omanut based in Zagreb, and …
Alfred Sendrey
… Musician, conductor and musicologist Alfred Sendrey was born … to amass a comprehensive bibliographical resource for Jewish Music. This project was aided by Joseph Yasser , Curt … (1945-52). The editing process for the Bibliography of Jewish Music was slow and laborious. Continual attempts to …
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 … As a teacher Shiloah contributed in Israel to the fields of Jewish ethnomusicology, especially the study of Judeo-Arabic …
Joachim Stutschewsky
… and writer, a founder of the Society for the Development of Jewish Music in Vienna, and a cellist in the famous Viennese … he encouraged Israeli composers to write music based on Jewish heritage. As for himself, he favored Ashkenazi, …