Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue Music in Nineteenth-Century Reform Sources from Hamburg: Ancient Tradition in the Dawn of Modernity

Edwin Seroussi

1996

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Let us begin with the most basic questions: Can oral traditions of music constitute a reliable source for historical research? While this question is applicable to most music cultures of the world, it becomes all the more acute when studying the music of Jewish communities. For most of the people who studied the Jewish…

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Edwin Seroussi

b. 1952

Born in Montevideo, Edwin Seroussi is a musicologist, specializing in the Sephardic tradition. Seroussi immigrated to Israel in 1971, studied at the Hebrew University, and earned his doctorate at UCLA. He is professor of musicology and director of the Jewish Music Research Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also founded and is the editor of Yuval, the music series of the Jewish Music Research Center.

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