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Mordechai Breuer
… the Kahal Adat Yisrael congregation in Frankfurt am Main, poetry and cantorship occupied a significant place. As a … and holidays. In Israel, Breuer taught the history of Jewish music at the conservatory. In the 1950s, he taught at … was made systematically according to topics in the Jewish calendar as follows: introduction and personal …
Abraham Eilam-Amzallag
… doctorate in 1986. In addition, he studied Hebrew medieval poetry, Arabic and English literature. Avraham Amzallag … Western compositional techniques. His works fuse Oriental Jewish melisma and modern techniques. In 1994 he … nine years from its establishment. For the first time the Jewish version of the Andalusian music was transcribed by …
Walter Zev Feldman
… Columbia University. Researcher on Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music, as well as the literature of the Ottoman and … on classical and Sufi music in Turkey, the music and poetry of epic in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, and Jewish klezmer music in the United States. His book , Music …
Judit Frigyesi
… of full liturgies of services with interviews) of the Jewish tradition recorded in East Europe and the largest … montage Fleeting Resonances combines field research, poetry, film, audio, and live performance (performances: … prose and photographs, the experience of the sound of Jewish prayer. … Musicologist … Judit Frigyesi …
Rivka Havassy
… Sephardic studies, with a focus on Ladino traditional oral poetry; musical and folk culture of the Sephardi community of Thessaloniki; contacts between Ladino folk poetry and the Greek culture; early recordings of Ladino … 2007). Participated in various research projects in the Jewish Music Research Center, among them: Incipitario …
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 … Idelsohn was greatly impacted by the diversity of the Jewish community living in Palestine, and embarked on a … reader of Modern Hebrew literature, from M. Ch Luzzatto’s poetry to the “Hashiloach” and the “Hador.” I became an …
Yehuda Ratzaby
… and was awarded a doctorate. From 1964, he taught Arabic-Jewish literature and medieval Hebrew literature at Bar-Ilan … He published many studies about Rabbi Saadia Gaon and the poetry of Rabbi Yehuda Halevi, as well as poems by Yemenite …
Ezra Fleischer
… He published extensively on early piyyut, medieval Hebrew poetry and Jewish prayers and was the leading scholar of these … of the Ezra Fleischer Geniza Research Project for Hebrew Poetry, click here . To view Fleischer's publications, …
Eleanor Gordon Mlotek
… to Max Weinreich , co-founder of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (then known as the Yiddish Scientific … ' Perl fun der Yiddisher Poezie ' ('Pearls of Yiddish Poetry') that included the feature ' Readers Recall Songs ,' … a lifetime achievement award by the Milken Archive and The Jewish Theological Seminary in 2003. Source: ' YIVO Mourns …
Joseph Mlotek
… of 7. As a young man, he was active in the Bund and other Jewish labor and socialist organizations. He also published Yiddish poetry in newspapers. He spent World War II in Shanghai and … E. Wiener Oral History Library of the American Jewish Committee at 'New York Public Library'. Joseph …