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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 …
Yehuda Ratzaby
… graduating, he began working in the security service. When World War II broke out, he was called to volunteer for …
Josef (Yossele) Rosenblatt
… religious works and had a major influence on the cantorial world that followed him. Sources: Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music , Encyclopedia Judaica . … Cantor and composer … …
Aron Marko Rothmüller
… Indiana University. Rothmüller composed chamber and choral music, many based on traditional Sephardic and Ashkenazi … (i.e. modern Hebrew) songs. As an author he published The Music of the Jew s: An Historical Appreciation (1953 and … and their colleagues who remained in Europe after the World War II. Biographies: Rosenthal, Harold revised by Alan …
Amnon Shiloah
… of Aliyat Hano’ar in northern Israel where he started his musical studies. In 1947 he enrolled at the Hebrew … of a book in the field of music for his work Music in the World of Islam (2003) and an honorary life membership at the … combined with contemporary sources from the Arab world can be found in another of Shiloah’s major …
Boaz Tarsi
… by institutions and performers such as the New York Chamber Music Society, the Israeli Sinfonietta, NYC 92nd street … the Jerusalem Theater, Tel Aviv Museum, the American Jewish Music Society, the Jewish Museum in Philadelphia, San Diego … “only in America” conference in New York, and the World Congress of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University in …
Max Wohlberg
… Theological Seminary of America, Seminary College of Jewish Music, 1988. Price, Joseph. “Max Wohlberg: A Biographical Sketch.” Journal of Synagogue Music 7 (June 1977): 21-27. Wohlberg, Max. “Pirkei hazzanut.” Journal of Synagogue Music 1 (January 1968) : 49-52. … Hungarian-born liturgical …
Simha Arom
… A French-Israeli ethnomusicologist who is recognized as a world expert on the … been a Visiting Professor at many universities around the world. He is also a member of the Société française de …
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 … works and songs, which have been performed all over the world. He is the author of four books: Choral Conducting, …