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Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… all of his career. He is most closely associated with the Jewish community of Dubno (today in western Ukraine), but … assistant singers (m’shor’rim) to sing and lead services in Jewish communities throughout Eastern Europe. Because of the … that “Kashtan” was a nickname, and was used in Jewish contexts. Although it referred initially and primarily to …
Betty Olivero
… compositional techniques; traditional melodies and texts undergo processes of development, adaptation, … to the point of assuming new forms in different contexts. These processes touch on wide and complex areas of … contemporary compositional form, yet is inspired by ancient Jewish and other early musical traditions. Folk material …
Ezra Aharon ("Azuri")
… listeners among Mizrahi communities (nearing 50% of the Jewish population), many leading composers listened to and … own music. He composed songs with both Hebrew and Arabic texts as well as large instrumental and vocal works in … לחן: עזרא אהרון) Articles: The Urban Arabic Repertoire of Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel: …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… 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 … prayers. The goal of these translations was to bring these texts closer to those parts of the community which could not …
Robert Starer
… styles and genres. His compositions include works with Jewish themes or Hebrew texts, such as: Kohelet , Sabbath Eve Service , among …
Edwin Seroussi
… (2004-2008; 2014-2016; 2019-2020), was Director of the Jewish Music Research Centre from 2000 to 2023, and … the Mediterranean and the Middle East, interactions between Jewish and Islamic cultures (specifically in art music … diaspora, nationalism and transnationalism in specific contexts such as the Ottoman Empire, and the constitution of …
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 … written sources (i.e. manuscript and printed scores, texts about music, textual descriptions of musical events, …
Israel Alter
… of the School of Sacred Music at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, where he had an enormous … field. Alter is known for his meticulous attention to the texts he composed, his use of techniques such as "word …
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 … by interpreting through music, as an exegete, basic Jewish texts, such as the Mishnah, the Talmud and the philosophical …
Amnon Shiloah
… Born in Lanus, Argentina in 1928 to a family of Jewish immigrants from Syria, Shiloah returned with his … As a teacher Shiloah contributed in Israel to the fields of Jewish ethnomusicology, especially the study of Judeo-Arabic … the affective powers of music and its uses in ritual contexts with his exclusive ethnographic experience among the …