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Meir Shimon Geshuri
… on the borders of the German Upper Silesia and the Austrian Western Galicia made it easy for me to think of acquiring an … to Berlin, the rapidly growing hub for Eastern European Jews seeking modern education, studied at a gymnasium and … Berlin and Dresden opened before him the world of classical Western music. One of his very early articles in the Hebrew …
Emanuel Aguilar
… Melodies of the Liturgy of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews was published in 1857 as a result of close work with de … music … Composer … London … Pianist … Spanish-Portuguese … Western Sephardi tradition … Emanuel Aguilar …
Eliezer S. Abinun
… retired as senior chazan of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation, London, in 1982, having served the … … Sarajevo … London Jewish community … Spanish-Portuguese … Western Sephardic … Eliezer S. Abinun …
Haim Effendi
… a wool business) was born in Edirne (formerly Adrianople in Western Thrace, today Turkey) in 1853. He spent most of his … transition in the history of the Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old traditional Ottoman Jewish community ruled by … by modernizing trends characterized by an exposure to Western culture (most particularly French), to liberal …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… associated with the Jewish community of Dubno (today in western Ukraine), but although he officially served there as … European culture and tradition. Christians as well as Jews responded to the vibrancy of his singing, and on at … Salomon’s name (at the time when Salomon was born, most Jews in the Russian Empire did not have family names). …
Ezra Aharon ("Azuri")
… in the 1950's-1960's, when most musicians considered only Western music as “high art.” Nonetheless, in addition to his … biographies: The World Online Encyclopedia Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World Zemereshet (Hebrew) In this …
Israel Adler
… his seminal work on the diffusion of art music in certain Western European Jewish communities prior to the 19th … for the Preservation of the Musical Traditions of the Jews), founder and president of the Provisional Council of … publication of texts, Adler unraveled unknown sources about Western music history that were buried under the Hebrew …
Frank Alvarez-Pereyre
… of view; Jewish interlinguistics: the French and Hebrew of Jews in France and Israel; the Judeo-Spanish of the Western Jews (Southern France, England, Holland, etc.); the …
Abraham Eilam-Amzallag
… of the Singing of Supplications ("Bakkashot") Among Morocco Jews", under the guidance of Professor Amnon Shiloah and … Amzallag-Eilam's musical style combine Eastern Melos with Western compositional techniques. His works fuse Oriental … version of the Andalusian music was transcribed by him into Western notation. As a researcher, he researched the Jewish …
Judit Frigyesi
… 19 th -20 th centuries in Europe and ritual musics of non-Western cultures (with expertise in the music of Béla Bartók … largest archive of the liturgical music of the Hungarian Jews. She is active as a writer, poet, photographer, and …