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Moses Beregovski
… born in the Ukraine in 1892. He was exposed to liturgical music at an early age through his father who was a teacher at the Kiev Jewish Music School and a ba’al kore (official who reads the … M. Vintshevsky, E. Edelshat and others. … Collector & researcher of Ashkenazi music in Eastern Europe … Moses …
Eduard Birnbaum
… in Bydgoszcz. His teachers at Bydgoszcz identified his musical talent early on and sent him to Vilna to study … and para-liturgical musical practices of the major European Jewish communities. To supplement the material that he received from other cantors and researchers, Birnbaum transcribed the Synagogue tradition as …
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 … Western compositional techniques. His works fuse Oriental Jewish melisma and modern techniques. In 1994 he … music was transcribed by him into Western notation. As a researcher, he researched the Jewish music of North Africa …
Walter Zev Feldman
… Ph.D., Columbia University. Researcher on Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music, as well as the literature of the Ottoman and Central …
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 … He also returned to the JMRC to actively participate in researchers’ seminars as a listener and speaker. Most …
Rivka Havassy
… An independent researcher in the field of Sephardic 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 …
Irene Heskes
… Born in Brooklyn, New York. Was a Music researcher who specialized in Jewish music. Her research included the compilation of a …
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 … do nothing, but waste my time in reflection. … Cantor & Researcher of Jewish music … Abraham Zvi Idelsohn …
Mark Kligman
… Mark L. Kligman is the Mickey Katz Chair Professor of Jewish Music at the Herb Alpert School of Music, University of … the Arts. Picture courtesy of Judith Pinnolis, JMWC … Researcher … Mark Kligman …
Israel J. Katz
… and Davis (1989–2004), collaborating as an associate researcher with the renowned hispanists Samuel G. Armistead … 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 …