Zemtsovsky, Izaly I. Ph.D.
Lectures on History of Russian-Jewish music, Jewish themes in Russian music, Marc Chagall and music.
Ethnomusicologist and folklorist specializing in Eurasia. Visiting scholar at U.C. Berkeley’s Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies teaching History of Russian-Jewish music (of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, 1908 to ca.1932). Author of twenty books, including Jewish Folk Songs: An Anthology, and more than 500 articles, including ten on Jewish music, whose subjects include M. Beregovsky, S. An-sky, D. Shostakovich, and “Musical Yiddishism.”
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