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Edwin Seroussi
… in Montevideo, Uruguay, Prof. Seroussi started there his music studies (violin, theory and composition). He … to Israel in 1971 where he studied at the Department of Musicology at the undergraduate and graduate levels … Aviv (2017), and the Maurice Toledano Prize for research on Sephardic culture (2009). In 2024 he became a member of the …
Yehiel 'Adaki
… and studied their repertoire. He had a good voice and musical hearing, as well as a good memory and perception, … Cairo, where he stayed for a year and a half, and studied Sephardic cantorate in the H anan synagogue. In 1926, … song, they stopped because some distinguished Ashkenazi and Sephardic guests have arrived at the wedding. After the …
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 …

Alberto Hemsi
… Born in Kasaba, Turkey. Studied music in Izmir, and later in Milan. Worked as musical … and in France (from 1958). Collected many traditional Sephardic melodies mainly from Turkey and Rhodes, some he … … Composers … Musician … Composer … Collector … Arranger … Sephardic … Music … Publishing … Egypt … Alberto Hemsi …
Israel J. Katz
… Edith Gerson-Kiwi and undertook field research among the Sephardic communities of Israel. He returned to UCLA and … H. Silverman (d. 1989) on the series Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews. Katz served as editor of Ethnomusicology (1970–72); for the Yearbook of the International …
David de Sola Pool
… Rabbi Dr. David de Sola Pool was the foremost Sephardic rabbi in the United States during the middle … . Rabbi Dr. David de Sola Pool translated and edited the Sephardic prayer book for the Union of Sephardic Congregations and the Ashkenazic prayer book for …
Aron Marko Rothmüller
… Indiana University. Rothmüller composed chamber and choral music, many based on traditional Sephardic and Ashkenazi songs as well as arrangements of … (i.e. modern Hebrew) songs. As an author he published The Music of the Jew s: An Historical Appreciation (1953 and …
Amnon Shiloah
… of Aliyat Hano’ar in northern Israel where he started his musical studies. In 1947 he enrolled at the Hebrew … of Misgav Yerushalayim (Center for the Study of the Sephardic and Oriental Heritage, 1975-1976), Head of the … ethnomusicology, especially the study of Judeo-Arabic and Sephardic traditions in Iraq and Morocco as well as to the …
Susana Weich-Shahak
… Born in Argentina, lives in Israel since 1958. PhD degree in Musicology at the Tel Aviv University (1986); BA and MA in … etc. Courses and conferences in Spain on the subject of Sephardic oral tradition (at the Universidad de Cadiz, … Jornadas de Patrimonio Historico-Musical in Cordoba, on the Sephardic Romancero. Spanish Culture Ministry research …
Samuel Adler
… Massachusetts. There the young Samuel Adler displayed his musical talents at an early age. He became his father’s … studied conducting with Serge Koussevitzky at the Berkshire Music Center. Following his discharge from the United States … of the music of Hugo Chaim Adler by Edwin Seroussi. Five Sephardic Choruses (SMR Bresler Collection) … American …