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Moses Beregovski
… born in the Ukraine in 1892. He was exposed to liturgical music at an early age through his father who was a teacher at the Kiev Jewish Music School and a ba’al kore (official who reads the Torah … exactly what portion of the collection was lost during World War II, but what does remain is housed at the …
Abraham Wolf Binder
… was born in New York to a family of cantors and into a world enriched by synagogue music and Jewish folklore. He was a member of his father’s … melodies). He continued his involvement in Jewish choral music, forming the Hadassah Choral Union in 1916 and the …
Abraham Baer
… . Baal Tfilla includes original compositions, as well as music borrowed from Salomon Sulzer , Louis Lewandowski … his death), a minor corner of the German-speaking Jewish world by all accounts, had everlasting effects. Four … cantors and musicians from the four corners of the Jewish world, which appeared in the opening of the second edition, …
Mordechai Breuer
… from Germany. In 1942, Breuer studied in a course for music teachers at the Jerusalem Conservatory and received a … of Orthodox Judaism in Germany (Neo-Orthodoxy), and the world of yeshivot and their development. Mordechai Breuer's Musical Education: In the synagogue of the Kahal Adat …
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 modernity. She has explored sound as a …
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 … with the publication of the final volume in 1932. During World War I, Idelsohn served in the Turkish Army as a … only the first volume could be printed, for soon the world-war broke out and all cultural activities had to …
Israel J. Katz
… 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 … He was a founding member of the American Society for Jewish Music (1974) and served as chairman of the board (until …
Robert Lachmann
… London, with a focus on French and Arabic languages. During World War I he served as an interpreter at the Wünsdorf POW … It was there that Lachmann was first exposed to non-Western music and folklore, and he began working on transcriptions … the seeds for his doctorate research of North African music. After the war, Lachmann began to study musicology …
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 … be seen as groundbreaking, as it proved to be at the end of World War II, when traditional Jewish culture seemed forever …
David de Sola Pool
… David and Tamar de Sola Pool, An Old Faith in the New World: a Portrait of Shearith Israel, 1654-1954 , Columbia …