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Abraham Goldfaden
… his songs, as well as other popular Jewish and secular music. The initial performances of these musical theater pieces created movement to establish a … finally Bar Kochba (1883). Although Goldfaden had no formal musical education, he arranged the majority of the music for …
Theodor Bikel
Born in Vienna, Austria and immigrated to Palestine with his parents at age 13. Studied…
Gershom Sizomu
… practice Judaism. In 2007 he published a CD with music from Abayudaya's tradition, called Sing For Joy: …
Albert Elias
… teacher. He played with some of the greatest stars of Iraqi music, including Nazem al-Ghazali, Salima Morad, Muhammed … Iraqi maqam and the more widespread Egyptian style of tarab music, which he greatly enjoyed. He also studied law for two … to play in private parties. Elias was the last living musicians to have played regularly with the Kuwaiti brothers …
Mark Kopytman
Mark Kopytman (b. Kamenets-Podolsk, Ukraine, 1929, immigrated in 1972, lived in…
Dika Newlin
… Dika Newlin was a composer, pianist, professor, musicologist, and punk rock singer. Full biography at Wikipedia . … Composer, Musicologist, Pianist, and punk rock singer … 0 … Pianist … Composer … Music … Professor … Rock … Dika Newlin …
Bence Szabolcsi
… Bence Szabolcsi was a Hungarian music historian. He was born in Budapest, the younger son … of the Hungarian Jewish weekly Egyenlőség . He studied musicology at Leipzig University, gaining a doctorate in … Benedetti and Claudio Sarcini. He edited the first music dictionary in Hungarian, established the Department of …
Rita Flomenboim
… Rita Flomenboim, musicologist and music theoretician. Born in Chernovitz, USSR. Graduated at Musicesku Academy in Kishinev, later she was a faculty …
Abigail Wood
… Lecturer in ethnomusicology in the Department of Music, University of Haifa. Completed her PhD on Yiddish … in 2004, supervised by Dr. Ruth Davis. She was Lecturer in Music at Southampton University from 2002-6, and moved to …
Hugo Adler
… (1949). Adler replaced much of the 19th century liturgical music with new and modern musical settings. In 1942 he was awarded first prize by the … Eric Mandell, his collection and the rediscovery of the music of Hugo Chaim Adler by Edwin Seroussi … Cantor and …