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Edith (Esther) Gerson Kiwi
… with Robert Lachman of the Jerusalem Archive for Oriental music, and dedicated herself to teaching and to … in Jerusalem . Gerson-Kiwi served as a senior lecturer at Hebrew University and at Tel Aviv University, and was … Music … Berlin … Jerusalem Archive for Oriental Music … Hebrew University … Tel Aviv University … Edith (Esther) …
Don Harrán
… Artur Rubinstein Professor Emeritus of Musicology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Research … early Jewish women as poets and singers; the beginnings of Hebrew musical historiography. … Musicologist … Don Harrán …
Ruth HaCohen (Pinczower)
… HaCohen (Pinczower) is the Artur Rubinstein Professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she has held various … The Interplay of Music and Politics in the West (2017, in Hebrew, with Yaron Ezrahi, Polonsky Prize). She was honored …
Andre Hajdu
… after the war at the prestigious Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. There he studied under Endre Szervánszky … (composition), Erno Szégedi (piano) and Zoltán Kodály (ethnomusicology). As a disciple of Kodály, Hajdu developed a deep … Revivim program for Jewish Studies teachers’ diploma at the Hebrew University. He also returned to the JMRC to actively …
Jehoash Hirshberg
… was an educator. From an early age, he was immersed in music, beginning with violin studies and later switching to … Hirshberg joined the Department of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He served as chair of the … the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra, and established the Hebrew University String Quartet. He initiated historical …
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 … he began working as a cantor and music teacher at the Hebrew Teacher’s college. Idelsohn was greatly impacted by … first volume of his seminal ten-volume work, Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies, which was a comprehensive study of …
Ruth Katz
… Ruth Katz is an Israeli musicologist, a pioneer of academic musicology in Israel, professor emerita at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has been a corresponding …
Israel J. Katz
… chairing the Department of Fine and Performing Arts; and Hebrew Union College as a visiting lecturer. He conducted … 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 …
Robert Lachmann
… 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 … of J.L Magnes to found the Archive of Oriental Music at Hebrew University. Lachmann ran the Archive with the help …

Eric Werner
… Born in Ludenberg (near Vienna ). Studied music and religion in several cities in Europe, receiving his PhD in musicology at the University of Strasbourg in in 1928. … in 1938. Began teaching Jewish music and liturgy at the Hebrew Union College in 1939, becoming the chairman of its …