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Edith (Esther) Gerson Kiwi
… Folklore and Ethnology. In 1963 she founded the Museum of Musical Instruments at the Rubin Academy of Music in … dealing with the correlation and mutual influence found in Jewish, Christian and Muslim musical traditions. See also the project on our website: The …
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 … and embarked on a massive project to record their unique musical and linguistic traditions. To his end, Idelsohn was awarded a research …

Eric Karsenti
… Unit at the Ministry of Health. Research interests in Jewish music: the musical traditions of the Algerian Jews; Written sources of …
Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the loss of Cantor … academia, Kalib began work on his monumental volume, The Musical Tradition of The Eastern European Synagogue , … Ashkenazic liturgical music, repertoire, and varying traditions. Three volumes made it to print: Vol. 1: History …
Robert Lachmann
… expeditions to North Africa , recording and documenting the musical practices of communities in Tripoli , Tunisia , … Lachmann recorded the liturgical and paraliturgical musical traditions of the local Jewish community, material that served as the base for his …
Leo Levi
… was the first scholar to devote research to the Italian Jewish oral musical traditions. However, his role in the field of Jewish …
Francesco Spagnolo
… The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Dissertation topic: The Musical Traditions of the Jews in Piedmont . Founder and Director of … at University of California, Santa Cruz . Editor of Italian Jewish Musical Traditions . Research interests: Italy; …
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 … to 1968, marking his definitive move to the study of oral traditions. At this same time he also joined the …
Nikolai Kaufman
… unfailing efforts to the documentation and study of the Jewish traditions of Bulgaria. Although his publications on these … of Kaufman’s contributions to the study of Jewish musical traditions is a desideratum because many of his …
Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961)
… notes and texts. Selections of liturgical music of various Jewish communities in Italy, recorded originally by the … di Santa Cecilia, Roma … AMTI CD 0102 … Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel … Songs … Chanukkah … Song … 14 … 2001 … … Italian … Leo Levi … Francesco Spagnolo … Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961) …