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Ronit Seter
… the Grove Music Online (12 entries), she has published in Musical Quarterly, Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Jewish Women Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Judaica, Tempo, … received grants from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, Dan David Scholarship, National Endowment for the …
Rivka Havassy
… studies, with a focus on Ladino traditional oral poetry; musical and folk culture of the Sephardi community of Thessaloniki; contacts … 2007). Participated in various research projects in the Jewish Music Research Center, among them: Incipitario …
Leo Levi
… was the first scholar to devote research to the Italian Jewish oral musical traditions. However, his role in the field of Jewish … own heritage, striving to integrate with Italy's mainstream culture. Levi's interest must then be seen as …
James Loeffler
… Ph.D. Columbia University, (2006), Dissertation: 'The Most Musical Nation: Jews, Culture and Nationalism in the Late Russian Empire'; … (1996); Founding Director, Vice-academic co-chair, Jewish Music Forum of the American Society for Jewish Music …
Nikolai Kaufman
… unfailing efforts to the documentation and study of the Jewish traditions of Bulgaria. Although his publications on … of Kaufman’s contributions to the study of Jewish musical traditions is a desideratum because many of his … alphabetically), performance ensemble/number of voices, culture (Sephardic or Ashkenazic), and holiday or occasion …
Herman Svet
… Berlin, which in those years was a city of refuge for many Jewish intellectuals who were fleeing Soviet Russia. Svet … including Russian Jews in Music (1960), J ews in Russian Musical Culture in the Soviet Period (1968), Jewish Theater in …
Avraham Soltes
… many cultural and educational activities that interpreted Jewish art, music, and literature. He was chairman of the … after week, he interwove the threads of Israeli history and culture with its musical heritage and that of Judaism at large. He had an …
Bence Szabolcsi
… son of Miksa Szabolcsi (1856-1915), editor of the Hungarian Jewish weekly Egyenlőség . He studied musicology at Leipzig … Frigyesi, Judit. ' Jews and Hungarians in Modern Hungarian Musical Culture ' in Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume IX: …
Michael Lukin
… A research associate, specializing in the traditional culture of Yiddish speakers. His recent publications, … , Yuval , Musik Traditionen , Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore , and Shofar , explore Yiddish folk songs … of Pennsylvania. Michael teaches courses on Jewish musical traditions and folklore, Hasidic musical thought, …
Moshe Wilensky
… returned to Warsaw. In his youth, Wilensky attended the Jewish " Eskela " Gymnasium, which offered Hebrew instruction alongside general studies. Wilensky's musical talent emerged at four when he began playing the … the land… His early songs and hymns are embedded in Hebrew culture and are sung to this day." In 1986, he received the …
Viktor Ullmann
… the fall of 1927, Ullmann took a short-term engagement as musical director in Usti nad Labem (now Aussig). After one … individual musicians were preserved, shedding light on the culture and participants of the musical life in Terezín. … them to H.G. Adler after the war. Ullmann’s interest in Jewish themes peaked for the first time in Terezín, …
Abraham Baer
… and Samuel Naumbourg , covering the liturgy of the entire Jewish calendar year. This major anthology by Baer, cantor … European cantorial circles, the reliance on a written musical text by their American progenies was certainly more … Hammarlund, Anders. A Prayer for Modernity: Politics and Culture in the World of Abraham Baer (1834-1894) . …


