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David Menahem

… pursuing his Torah studies, he has performed with Iraqi musicians, members of the Voice of Israel in the Arabic …

… 17, 1859. His father, Rabbi Eliyahu Navon, was one of the Jewish intellectuals and public figures in Adrianpole, a … urban centers of the Ottoman Empire in the 1860s: Haskalah (Jewish enlightenment) and Jewish nationalism. Educated Jews … from youth to old age.' Judging by the long list of musicians who were in contact with Navon in Israel, it can …

Ray Musiker

… Ray is the fourth generation in a family of Klezmer musicians. As a child, Ray learned to play Klezmer dance music at Jewish weddings. His parents immigrants to America from … his parents, Ray inhererited a love of Eastern European Jewish music from Russia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and …

Israel Adler

… Institut de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and musical studies. During his thirteen-year sojourn … on the diffusion of art music in certain Western European Jewish communities prior to the 19th century, published a … music, textual descriptions of musical events, memoires of musicians) and to record as much as possible the musical …

Eduard Birnbaum

… out and recorded biographical information about important musicians, composers and hazzanim. He also interviewed … and para-liturgical musical practices of the major European Jewish communities. To supplement the material that he … collection … Hebrew Union College … Cantor … Collector … Jewish Liturgy … Eduard Birnbaum …

Abraham Baer

… and Samuel Naumbourg , covering the liturgy of the entire Jewish calendar year. This major anthology by Baer, cantor … until his death), a minor corner of the German-speaking Jewish world by all accounts, had everlasting effects. Four … The remarkable list of congratulatory notes by cantors and musicians from the four corners of the Jewish world, which …

Walter Zev Feldman

… Columbia University. Researcher on Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music, as well as the literature of the Ottoman and … music and poetry of epic in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, and Jewish klezmer music in the United States. His book , Music … Music' articles to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001). He teaches Ottoman music and is among the …

Don Harrán

… instrumental music of the early Baroque; Jews as composers, musicians, and music theorists in fifteenth- to seventeenth-century Italy; early Jewish women as poets and singers; the beginnings of Hebrew …

Andre Hajdu

… 5 March 1932 to a characteristically assimilated Hungarian-Jewish family and having survived the Holocaust (a subject … immersed himself in Judaism and started to observe Jewish religious practices. At the same time, he mingled in … ideas and techniques. A number of distinguished young musicians from this school developed outstanding careers and …

Menashe Ravina

… actively engaged in the musical circles of Eastern European Jewish musicians, documenting and arranging Jewish folk music. Ravina was a dedicated educator and …