The Earliest Hebrew Speaking Institutions of Music Education; Tel-Aviv, 1910s

Abstract

Based on the archival collections of the first two Hebrew music schools in Tel-Aviv, Shulamit Conservatory and Beth-Lewiim College of Music, this article discusses their formative years between the 1910s and the 1920s. Despite significant financial difficulties, the severe impact of World War I on the Yishuv,2 pressures to comply with the emerging national identity, and personal as well as pedagogical disagreements, both succeeded in establishing professional institutions that helped shape the conservatory model in Israel for many years to come.