Professor

Amnon Netzer

Researcher of Persian Jewry

Amnon Netzer was an Iranian-born Israeli historian, researcher, professor and journalist. Netzer was a leading authority on Iranian history and culture as well as Persian and Judeo-Persian languages. Netzer founded Israel Broadcasting Authority's Persian Service in 1958 and was a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem until his death in 2008.

Full biography can be viewed at Amnon Netzer Center For Iranian Jewish History And Heritage's website.

1934- 2008

Dika Newlin

Composer, Musicologist, Pianist, and punk rock singer

Dika Newlin was a composer, pianist, professor, musicologist, and punk rock singer.

Full biography at Wikipedia.

1923- 2006

Max Wohlberg

Hungarian-born liturgical scholar, composer and cantor

Max Wohlberg was born in Humene (today in Ukraine). He immigrated to the U.S. in 1923, where he sang in the choir of the Metropolitan Opera and held several positions as cantor. From 1952 he was professor of liturgy at the Cantors' School of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York (now the H. L. Miller Cantorial School). As a composer, Wholberg mainly wrote modern melodies to liturgical texts.

1907-1996

Elliot Reuben Wolfson

Professor, Judaic studies

US professor of Judaiac Studies. For biography at Jewish Virtual Library, click here.

1956-

Herzl Shmueli

Israeli musicologist

1920-2001

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