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Rivka Havassy
… 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 director in various synagogues in Egypt (1927-1957) and in France (from 1958). Collected many traditional Sephardic melodies mainly from Turkey and …
Aron Friedmann
… he published Shir li-Shelomoh , a collection of cantorial music in traditional style for the prayers of the year. He also wrote …
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 … to the customs of the respective countries, and their traditional song varied greatly from one to another. I started collecting their traditional songs. In the course of time the …
Israel J. Katz
… Judeo-Spanish ballads, comparing the stylistic features of traditional ballads from Jerusalem with those preserved … of the Sephardic Jews. Katz served as editor of Ethnomusicology (1970–72); for the Yearbook of the International … Jewish communities of the Mediterranean region, and on the traditional folk music of Spain, with special studies on the …
Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… immigrants, Sholom Kalib was a mainstay of Jewish music in mid-twentieth century Chicago, serving as a … he began his lifelong engagement with Western music theory, completing a doctorate at Northwestern … notations of Kalib’s field work with over one hundred traditional Ashkenazic cantors and prayer leaders, they …
Leo Levi
… 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 … as it proved to be at the end of World War II, when traditional Jewish culture seemed forever lost. He …
Yaakov Mazor
… Studied Violin, Music Theory and Composition, at the Department of Theory, the Rubin Academy, Jerusalem. M.A. Musicology, Bar-Ilan University; M.A. thesis: The Role of Traditional Music in the Wedding of Georgian Jewish …
David de Sola Pool
… recorded several excerpts from the prayer according to the traditional melodies of the Spanish-Portuguese community. … of Israel website. (Includes a number of recordings of the traditional Spanish-Portuguese melodies) … 627 … The leading …
Yehuda Ratzaby
… suffered bereavement and deprivation. There, he learned the traditional prayers according to the local custom, and how …