… statehood, defined by physical frontiers and political or educational institutions, and guaranteeing an historical … including a strong tendency towards linguistic as well as musical dialect formation. It is only natural that the musical traditions of Kurdistan Jews should also have been …

… Stalin, and lost out to assimilation in America. Klezmer music is now experiencing a tremendous new spurt of interest … and non-Jews recreating this restless volatile, and vibrant musical culture. Firmly centered in the United States, … moved back across the Atlantic as a distinctly 'American' music, played throughout central and eastern Europe, as well …

… Ray is the fourth generation in a family of Klezmer musicians. As a child, Ray learned to play Klezmer dance music at Jewish weddings. His parents immigrants to America … parents, Ray inhererited a love of Eastern European Jewish music from Russia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. …

… to Israel in 1939, and studied in the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Moved to the US in 1952, and received a PhD in Jewish Music from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1972. … themes. In 1986 she moved to Israel where she continued her educational activities and produced the video series 'A …

… professional hazzanim in his family. He received his formal musical education in Munich where he was recruited to sing in Maier … and was subsequently hired as a professor of liturgical music at the Séminaire Israélite.  With the support of …

… and choirmasters who attempted to create and adapt music to suit the new ritual and format of American Reform … in Uhlen, Württemberg (later Germany), and received his musical education at a Munich conservatory. He came to the United …

… other siblings were taught Jewish folk and instrumental music by his father who was a well known Klezmer musician and poet. In 1908 he began his formal musical education at the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied cello …

… scholarly work is well known to every student of Jewish music. I was privileged to belong to the team that … to his article on the Birnbaum collection of Jewish music (see item no. 66 in our bibliography) and Alfred … Birnbaum collection … Birnbaum, Eduard (1855-1920) … Music education … Jewish music … Hebrew Union College (HUC) … …

… born in Rostov-on-Don, son to the local Rabbi. He began his musical education with Cantor Gerovitz and pianist Oscar Fritch at … where he was hired as a composition teacher at the State Music School . After a tenure of ten years, Gnesin traveled …

… field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness through music challenged the normative status of traditions of old. … remarks, the Jewish songs circulating in congregations and educational institutions in the USA after World War II muted …