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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… in this volume belong to a well-documented Jewish music tradition. Moreover, Karnes’s argument that “traces of the … reading to the by now clichéd concept of “invented tradition,” as deployed in relation to the Zionist project … American melody and Hebrew verse was therefore not a local tradition or a ditty, but a widespread item (Zemereshet, …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… crystallized into several minhagim (“customs” or “traditions”) once the printing press started to produce … Leo Levi recorded collection of Italian Jewish musical traditions includes four versions of Elohim hashivenu , … not of the ninth verse of Psalm 28 that is added in oral tradition) for four voices is a testimony of the fact that …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… These findings show the extent to which repertoires of traditional music have evolved in the century or more since … discography. It also barely survived in the Sephardic oral traditions which were recorded in ethnographic pursuits … version was preserved in the Bulgarian Sephardic tradition. The distinguished ethnomusicologist Nikolai …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… who formulated their German-Jewish identity within “the traditional bounds of intellectual history.” Unger, he …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… Catholic and brought up his children in a blandly Christian tradition. A clear hint is that virtually all his close …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… salvation by Esther and Mordecai, stressing the popular joy traditionally expressed on Purim for this miraculous turn of … life, became one of the most remarkable folk performers of traditional Sephardic songs within the American … was part of inter-war Yugoslavia. She not only performed traditional Sephardic songs but also penned new songs, some …
Moshe Cordova
… chose to remain in the Turkish Republic and maintain the tradition in situ, within a venerable Jewish community. In … Sephardic synagogues certainly eclipsed the Ottoman Turkish tradition. The Turkish makam became a minority practice … the late Refael Elnadav, a caretaker of the Ottoman Hebrew tradition in his own exile in Brooklyn, to coach young …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… of music in the Islamic world and of the Jewish musical traditions within it. Warkov wanted to study processes of … practice was through exploring the variations between the traditional Iraqi maqam tradition from Baghdad and what she termed ‘mainstream …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… retains the internal logic of klezmer as a longstanding tradition: a premise that needs additional scholarship … decades-long career, methods, and thinking as a klezmer tradition-bearer. The new era has brought vocalists more …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… life, transmitted to younger generations through oral tradition. Alicia learned much of this repertoire from the …