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Eduard Birnbaum
… in Bydgoszcz. His teachers at Bydgoszcz identified his musical talent early on and sent him to Vilna to study … and para-liturgical musical practices of the major European Jewish communities. To supplement the material that he … cantors and researchers, Birnbaum transcribed the Synagogue tradition as he had learned it. All of these efforts …
Abraham Baer
… and Samuel Naumbourg , covering the liturgy of the entire Jewish calendar year. This major anthology by Baer, cantor … of this written source over the orally-transmitted traditional improvisation of the liturgical lore. Although … European cantorial circles, the reliance on a written musical text by their American progenies was certainly more …
Mordechai Breuer
… world of yeshivot and their development. Mordechai Breuer's Musical Education: In the synagogue of the Kahal Adat … and holidays. In Israel, Breuer taught the history of Jewish music at the conservatory. In the 1950s, he taught at … liturgical and para-liturgical music, customs, and traditions, as were customary in the community and in Prof. …
Edith (Esther) Gerson Kiwi
… Folklore and Ethnology. In 1963 she founded the Museum of Musical Instruments at the Rubin Academy of Music in … dealing with the correlation and mutual influence found in Jewish, Christian and Muslim musical traditions. See also the project on our website: The …
Andre Hajdu
… 5 March 1932 to a characteristically assimilated Hungarian-Jewish family and having survived the Holocaust (a subject … immersed himself in Judaism and started to observe Jewish religious practices. At the same time, he mingled in … works in which he followed the romantic and modern European tradition of “pure” music. Examples of this are his piano …
Rivka Havassy
… in the field of Sephardic studies, with a focus on Ladino traditional oral poetry; musical and folk culture of the Sephardi community of … 2007). Participated in various research projects in the Jewish Music Research Center, among them: Incipitario …
Alberto Hemsi
… Studied music in Izmir, and later in Milan. Worked as musical director in various synagogues in Egypt (1927-1957) and in France (from 1958). Collected many traditional Sephardic melodies mainly from Turkey and …
Jehoash Hirshberg
… received a distinguished prize. He pursued his academic and musical training at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music, earning a … field of research was the development of art music in he Jewish community in Ottoman and British Palestine (the … also engaged in ethnomusicology, studying the oral musical traditions of the Karaite Jews, a subject on which he …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… Latvia (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He … and embarked on a massive project to record their unique musical and linguistic traditions. To his end, Idelsohn was awarded a research …
Eric Karsenti
… Unit at the Ministry of Health. Research interests in Jewish music: the musical traditions of the Algerian Jews; Written sources of …