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Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century completes an American klezmer trilogy of sorts, alongside Hankus Netsky’s …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… written an informative and penetrating history of Jews in American jazz music, which should become a first stop for … great stride pianist Willie “The Lion” Smith, an African-American, starts an enthusiastic conversation with … the career of Smith mostly in a chapter about the African-American appropriation of Jewish songs and themes, as though …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… the memory of this remarkable Sarajevo-born Sephardic-American artist. Jagoda, slightly later in her life, became … folk performers of traditional Sephardic songs within the American scene. Eventually she became an international …
Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… by Prof. Edwin Seroussi on December 13, 2020 as part of a American Friends of the Hebrew University program, examines …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… as a given Berlin’s permanent place in the pantheon of American song, if not song in general. It's now 30 years … these ethnic ditties but in the production of inclusively American songs – songs whose appeal could extend across the many components of American society. As scholars including Charles Hamm have …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… is certainly possible that the adherence to Mahler in North American contexts also solidified Unger’s self-positioning … with the music market of post-World War II and the north-American cultural environment. In this regard, Tesler-Mabé …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… Salamone Rossi – Opera Omnia , 13 vols. Middleton: American Institute of …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… encounters are found elsewhere as well: There are Jewish-American songs about Jewish cowboys (Gottlieb 2004, 64). … transcribed appears to be unique. Its similarity to the American spiritual ‘Glory, Glory Hallelujah’ (and the … as the Hebrew verse is simply set to the melody of the American song. The setting of this Biblical Hebrew verse to …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… ethnological paradigms took place among a new generation of American-born scholars since the early 1950s. Numerous …