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Ruth HaCohen (Pinczower)
… HaCohen (Pinczower) is the Artur Rubinstein Professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she … Society of Fellows. HaCohen investigates the modes by which music participates in shaping the emotional, religious, social, and political worlds since early …
Uzi Hitman
… seminary with Cantor Moshe Koussevitzky and followed a religious lifestyle, whereas his mother was secular. … to Hitman, his father had a great influence on his musical path, and he used to play recordings of his father's … whenever he had visitors. In addition to the cantorial music played in his childhood home, Hitman’s parents …
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 … Studies and is the editor of the association's journal, Musica Judaica. He also authored a chapter in The Oxford …
Tsvey Kuni Lemel
… Goldfaden portrays as a triumph of maskilic values over religious hegemony. The image above is the title page of the … Hebrew Publishing Company … … 1893? … Theater … Theater music … Yiddish … Goldfaden … Yiddish songs … Yiddish …
Pinchas Borenstein
… under the Russian Empire (now Poland). He grew up in a religious family; his father, Yaakov Dov, was a rabbi, and … From a young age, Borenstein demonstrated a passion for music. As a child, he sang in a synagogue choir in Warsaw. … held for 30 years. He played a pivotal role in the Jewish musical community in South America, serving as the organizer …
El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… magnificent collection of 78 rpm recordings of Sephardic music is well-known to all those interested in this … interactions characteristic of modern North African Jewish music. The other side of our record contains another … published in 1856) the main late-19th century compendium of religious Hebrew poetry from Western Algeria. As with many …
Moshe "Musa" Berlin
… berlin is a clarinet player and one of the leading Klezmer musicians in Israel. He was born in 1938 in Tel Aviv to a family of Hasidut Modzits . Musa’s musical capabilities were discovered at the age of 6 when he … played in varied Jewish events such as weddings but also in religious events in the Jewish denominations and …

The Israeli Mediterranean Style
… selected versions of European Mediterranean styles in art music that Jewish composers—the founders of Israeli music, among them the Israeli Five: Paul (Frankenburger) … youngest among the founders, used his selection of Mizrahi religious tropes within densely polyphonic, expressive …
Experiencing Devekut
… the power of the niggun experience in the hasid ’s religious life, it is necessary to elaborate on concepts … that was published in December 2014 as part of the Jewish Music Research Centre's Yuval Music Series. This study, the first of its kind, is based on …
Anu Be-hamon Shir
… high level. We do not know whether the description dayan (religious judge) refers to a position he occupied, or … the Aleppo Mahzor (1527) … Piyyutim … Contemporary Israeli Music … Ethnic music … Israeli art music … Israeli composers … Israeli …