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Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… The son of Ukranian-Jewish immigrants, Sholom Kalib was a mainstay of Jewish … notating the great heritage of Eastern European cantorial tradition, transcribing and publishing the cantorial … academia, Kalib began work on his monumental volume, The Musical Tradition of The Eastern European Synagogue , …
Robert Lachmann
… expeditions to North Africa , recording and documenting the musical practices of communities in Tripoli , Tunisia , … Lachmann recorded the liturgical and paraliturgical musical traditions of the local Jewish community, material that served as the base for his …
Leo Levi
… was the first scholar to devote research to the Italian Jewish oral musical traditions. However, his role in the field of Jewish …
Francesco Spagnolo
… The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Dissertation topic: The Musical Traditions of the Jews in Piedmont . Founder and Director of … at University of California, Santa Cruz . Editor of Italian Jewish Musical Traditions . Research interests: Italy; …
Solomon Rosowsky
… He helped to found the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music in 1908 and served as the musical director of the Yiddish Art Theater . In 1920, … cantillation based on his research of the Lituanian-Israeli tradition. The massive work is broken up into three main …
Salamone Rossi
… Though much ink has been spilled reviewing the vast musical contribution of Jewish-Italian composer Salamone de Rossi, not much is known … synagogue service, representing a significant break from traditional monophonic melodies for liturgy and the reading …
Aron Marko Rothmüller
… Rothmüller composed chamber and choral music, many based on traditional Sephardic and Ashkenazi songs as well as … collection is located at the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and can accessed … and historical information on Rothmüller and his important Jewish cultural organization, Omanut based in Zagreb, and …
Amnon Shiloah
… Born in Lanus, Argentina in 1928 to a family of Jewish immigrants from Syria, Shiloah returned with his … of Aliyat Hano’ar in northern Israel where he started his musical studies. In 1947 he enrolled at the Hebrew … to 1968, marking his definitive move to the study of oral traditions. At this same time he also joined the …
Susana Weich-Shahak
… Tel Aviv University. Since 1973, research on the Sephardi Musical Tradition at the Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University, …
Joseph Dorfman
… and later studied Musicology and Composition at the Gnessin Musical Institute in Moscow (1967-1971), receiving his PhD … as artistic director of the International Festivals of Jewish Art Music, initiated in 1992. As a composer, … and oratorios. Dorfman researched the Jewish musical tradition of Eastern Europe, focusing on the work of the …