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Mathew Miller (Matisyahu)
… performing and recording ever since for fans all around the world. His artistic style combines reggae, rock, and rap, and is inspired by Hassidic music (primarily by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach). His lyrics … unusual combination of Orthodox Jewish belief and popular music. For further reading about Matisyahu and the Hasidic …
Israel Adler
… the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études and at the Institut de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and musical studies. During his thirteen-year sojourn in Paris … its French prototype. Under this name, it became known as a world center for the documentation of oral Jewish musical …
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 …