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Rivka Havassy
… An independent researcher in the field of Sephardic studies, with a focus on Ladino traditional oral poetry; musical and folk culture of the Sephardi community of … Participated in various research projects in the Jewish Music Research Center, among them: Incipitario sefardí: El …

Irene Heskes
… Born in Brooklyn, New York. Was a Music researcher who specialized in Jewish music. Her research included the compilation of a large …
Jehoash Hirshberg
… was an educator. From an early age, he was immersed in music, beginning with violin studies and later switching to … received a distinguished prize. He pursued his academic and musical training at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music, earning a … Israeli higher education. Hirshberg’s principal field of research was the development of art music in he Jewish …
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 … in 1906. In Jerusalem, he began working as a cantor and music teacher at the Hebrew Teacher’s college. Idelsohn was … linguistic traditions. To his end, Idelsohn was awarded a research grant from the Academy of Science in Vienna, along …
Rachel Kollender
… Lecturer, Musicologist and Ethnomusicologist, with special interest in Jewish music, Karaite … Girls College (Michlala); Highschools 'Emuna' and 'Dror' Research grants, awards (selection): Two funds of the …
Mark Kligman
… Mark L. Kligman is the Mickey Katz Chair Professor of Jewish Music at the Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles, a Chair … the Arts. Picture courtesy of Judith Pinnolis, JMWC … Researcher … Mark Kligman …
Israel J. Katz
… privately with Edith Gerson-Kiwi and undertook field research among the Sephardic communities of Israel. He … of the Sephardic Jews. Katz served as editor of Ethnomusicology (1970–72); for the Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council, he was editor (1977–70), coeditor (with …

Eric Karsenti
… Environmental Epidemiology Unit at the Ministry of Health. Research interests in Jewish music: the musical traditions of the Algerian Jews; Written sources of …
Robert Lachmann
… It was there that Lachmann was first exposed to non-Western music and folklore, and he began working on transcriptions … Wünsdorf quite likely planted the seeds for his doctorate research of North African music. After the war, Lachmann began to study musicology …
Leo Levi
… Leo Levi was the first scholar to devote research to the Italian Jewish oral musical traditions. However, his role in the field of Jewish ethnomusicology, and in particular in the development of …