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Gershon Ephros
… 1918, he was appointed cantor of Congregation Beth El in Norfolk, Virginia, and later became cantor at Congregation Beth …
Walter Zev Feldman
… Khevrisa: European Klezmer Music was issued by Smithsonian-Folkways in 2000. He is currently preparing at the JMRC a …
Gila Flam
… and University Library. Research interests: Yiddish folk song with emphasis on the Holocaust period. Currently …
Edith (Esther) Gerson Kiwi
… which was then part of the greater Palestine Institute of Folklore and Ethnology. In 1963 she founded the Museum of …
David Halperin
… project of cataloguing the Beregovski collection of Yiddish folk music. (*The photo is taken from shira-ovedet website) …
Andre Hajdu
… a deep interest in ethnography, the relation between folklore and contemporary composition and in pedagogy. He … in Jewish topics, not necessarily by employing or quoting folkloric themes that he researched, but rather by …
Rivka Havassy
… with a focus on Ladino traditional oral poetry; musical and folk culture of the Sephardi community of Thessaloniki; contacts between Ladino folk poetry and the Greek culture; early recordings of …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… love the synagogal modes and “Zemiroth” as well as Jewish Folk-Songs. At home I received an orthodox education and … are of interest to the scholars. 2) The Jewish song is a folk-art, created by the people. It has no art-song, and no …
Israel J. Katz
… Armistead and Joseph H. Silverman (d. 1989) on the series Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews. Katz served as editor … for the Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council, he was editor (1977–70), coeditor (with … of the Mediterranean region, and on the traditional folk music of Spain, with special studies on the …
Robert Lachmann
… that Lachmann was first exposed to non-Western music and folklore, and he began working on transcriptions of the …