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Arbie Orenstein
… scholarly annual journal Musica Judaica, sponsored by the American Society for Jewish Music. Source: Shiloah, Amnon. … (*The photo was taken from Queen College Website) … American musicologist & Pianist … ravel … Musicologist … Jewish music … American … Arbie Orenstein …
Karev Yom
… justification, his cosmopolitan persona or his career as an American theatre and movie actor, entertainer, and folk song … there was a demand for Israeli “products” in North American concentrations of Jews and Bikel was the right … recorded various Israeli artists trying to enter the American (Jewish) market, such as Ran and Nama, Geula Gil …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… recordings throughout the European, Middle Eastern and American Jewish diasporas, was a crucial component in the … Thus for instance on the website of the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music we read that: “Leon Igly, a musician … I traced back its age as demonstrably earlier that 1750, [American music critic] Mr. H.E. Krehbiel [1854-1923] rebuked …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… Purim, Brothers’) is one of the most familiar songs in the American Yiddish repertoire for Purim. It has appeared in many American Jewish songsters at least since Samuel E. … reprinted from Goldfarb’s in several widely disseminated American Hebrew-Yiddish songsters published by Harry …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… a still largely unexplored treasure of Jewish Musical Americana, includes a magnificent recording of ‘Haint Iz … Hag Purim’ in Hebrew and Yiddish, a common practice in American Jewish communities at the time. All in all, this …
David Berger
… of 2014 and and is a member of the Executive Board of the American Conference of Cantors. Before that, he served as …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… provides a fascinating window into the intersections of American, Palestinian and European Zionism, mid-century … remembered for his contributions to the liturgical music of American Reform Judaism and his work on Biblical … in New York City. Rabbi Wise, an outspoken pioneer of American Zionism and one of the most charismatic (if …

Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… from online resources associated with the “History of the American Cantorate” project (Slobin 1984–86). Spiro is … with him, which is also part of the “History of the American Cantorate” project, can be found here: … can be found in the database of recordings on the American Cantorate website (Slobin 1984–86). I tabulated all …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… the Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played … ii – bVII – V. Figure 8. Shema’ Koleinu as an Anglo-American popular song Debbie Friedman’s “Shema’ Koleinu” … entrance of this globalized musical language into liberal American synagogues. By bringing this widespread melodic and …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… Jewish Agency published in New York in 1954 on behalf of American and Canadian Jewish educators. In this publication, …