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Israel Alter
… Ukraine) into a Hasidic family with many rabbis. He studied music in Vienna with cantors and teachers of singing and … in 1961 and joined the faculty of the School of Sacred Music at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of … … German Synagogue … Tenor … Yiddish songs … Ashkenazi liturgical music … American cantors … Composer … Israel Alter …
Frank Alvarez-Pereyre
… the Mishna: study of oral performances from linguistic and musical points of view; Jewish interlinguistics: the French … of the Jews in Germany, Austria, and Romania; the liturgical music traditions of Ethiopian Jews … Linguist … Frank …
Moses Beregovski
… was born in the Ukraine in 1892. He was exposed to liturgical music at an early age through his father who was a teacher at the Kiev Jewish Music School and a ba’al kore (official who reads the Torah …
Abraham Wolf Binder
… a family of cantors and into a world enriched by synagogue music and Jewish folklore. He was a member of his father’s … melodies). He continued his involvement in Jewish choral music, forming the Hadassah Choral Union in 1916 and the … Liturgy (1962). Binder was appointed professor of Jewish liturgical music at the newly merged Jewish Institute of …
Eduard Birnbaum
… in Bydgoszcz. His teachers at Bydgoszcz identified his musical talent early on and sent him to Vilna to study … interviewed prominent hazzanim in order to document the liturgical and para-liturgical musical practices of the major European Jewish …
Abraham Baer
… collection of hymns made up primarily of Salomon Sulzer’s liturgical compositions and arrangements. Abraham Baer's … . Baal Tfilla includes original compositions, as well as music borrowed from Salomon Sulzer , Louis Lewandowski … the orally-transmitted traditional improvisation of the liturgical lore. Although this phenomenon had already taken …
Mordechai Breuer
… from Germany. In 1942, Breuer studied in a course for music teachers at the Jerusalem Conservatory and received a … Jerusalem. Over the years, Mordechai Breuer composed many liturgical and para-liturgical works for a variety of events. As an educator for …
Gershon Ephros
… grandfather, Cantor Moses Fromberg. He received his first musical training while being part of his grandfather's … 1957. Apart fom his cantorial career, Ephros taught Jewish music in Hebrew schools in New York and at the Hebrew Union … Jewish Music Council. As a composer, Ephros composed many liturgical works, in addition to other vocal and …
Judit Frigyesi
… Judit Niran Frigyesi is a musicologist, ethnomusicologist, teacher and poet. She received her Ph.D in … recorded in East Europe and the largest archive of the liturgical music of the Hungarian Jews. She is active as a …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He continued … wrote extensively on the historical development of Jewish liturgical and cantorial music. During his time at HUC, he … with his work on the ties between Jewish and Christian liturgical music. Though less well known, Idelsohn also …