Dear IMS Members,

The Israeli Musicological Society mourns the passing of Professor Jehoash Hirshberg, Israel Prize laureate and a member of the society since its founding.

Professor Hirshberg was among the founding generation of Israeli musicology and was one of the country’s foremost and most prolific scholars. He was born in Tel Aviv in April 1938 and, following studies in violin and theory at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music, he pursued advanced studies at the University of Pennsylvania (1966–1971), where he was awarded a PhD in historical musicology in 1971. That same year, he began his tenure as a lecturer in the Department of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 1984 to 1990, he served as head of the department; between 1985 and 1992, he established the interdisciplinary program in the Faculty of Humanities, and from 1993 to 2000, he headed the Institute for General Humanities within the same faculty. He donated his body to science.

May his memory be a blessing.

Condolence visits may be paid at the family home during the intermediate days of Passover (Tuesday–Thursday), between the hours of 10:00–13:00 and 16:00–19:00, at 87 Hebron Road, Jerusalem.