Keywords:
Paul Ben-Haim, Israeli Music, Israeli Composers, German Jewish composers, Munich Composers, Migration, World War II, Jehoash Hirshberg, Biography
Abstract
Paul Ben-Haim: His Life and Works by Jehoash Hirshberg. Tel Aviv: Israel Music Institute (IMI), 2010. 440 pp., including illustrations, 106 musical examples, extensive list of 259 compositions, and indexes of names and works.
(First English edition, Jerusalem: Israeli Music Publications, 1990, edited by Bathja Bayer and translated by Nathan Friedgut from the original 1983 Hebrew edition, published by Am Oved. The 2010 edition was revised, updated, and edited by Paul Landau.)
Author Biography
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Ronit Seter
Ronit Seter studies 20th-century music and specializes in Israeli art music. Her book about Israeli composers is under contract with the Oxford University Press. A contributor to Grove Music Online, she has published in Tempo, Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Jewish Women (Encyclopaedia), Encyclopaedia Judaica, Notes, and Musical Quarterly (forthcoming). Dr. Seter earned her PhD at Cornell University in 2004. She has served on the faculties of the Peabody Conservatory, the George Washington University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the American University (DC). She has presented her work in many colloquia and international conferences in the USA, Europe, and Israel, among them the American Musicological Society, the International Musicological Society, and the World Congress for Jewish Studies. Living in Fairfax, VA, she serves as a co-founder of an American Musicological Society Study Group, Jewish Studies and Music, and is a visiting scholar at the Jewish Music Research Center, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
