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Socalled Movie
… Beitel Josh Dolgin, aka Socalled, is a Jewish Canadian musician from Quebec. He has come to attention in recent … of Dolgin, the film documents his cooperation with American lounge music artist Irving Fields and the first klezmer cruise of the …

Terkish (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT … and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … citation, you get the full reference. “ Bulgar was the American Jewish name for a dance genre which had come to …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukkah Songs
… time, the need of each generation to express itself in its particular contemporary literary and musical taste has engendered new songs. These new songs … against tyranny in its many forms. His influence on American music is incalculable, as new generations of …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… and society. Yet something of that texts and tears, martyrs and saints approach still governs much of the … in the Jewish past. A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern … Palestine, Lithuanian Jewish South Africa, and Midwestern American Reform Judaism. What is missing is a picture of the …
Come, Let Us Be Joyful! The Story of Hava Nagila
… Click Here for Slide Show This entry is part of an online exhibit entitled: 'Hava Nagila: From … and Arbie Orenstein ’s introduction to Idelsohn’s Jewish Music: Its Historical Development). However, she also notes …
Ernest Bloch
… Swiss born American Composer Ernest Bloch was born on July 24, 1880 in … United States in 1916, and in 1920 was appointed the first Musical Director of the fledgling Cleveland Institute of … Oregon, of cancer at the age 78. … Swiss born Jewish American composer … Ernest Bloch …
Yaakov Huri
… nature of the relationship between her and her research partners. The intimate relationship between Kiwi and Yaakov … relations dominating the encounters between European ethnomusicologists and their subjects of inquiry in Israel. Our … the offer overseas without telling his family about his departure due to the fear that they would try to dissuade him …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras . Syracuse: … York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century completes an American klezmer trilogy of sorts, alongside Hankus Netsky’s … between aging players and enthusiastic young musicians starting around the 1970s. Beginning with an archive of 78 rpm …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … German-Jewish paradigm as it crystalized since the second quarter of the 19 th century mainly in Vienna, Berlin and … older improvised Ashkenazi forms of choral accompaniment), partially based on traditional tunes or consisting of …
Mizmor le-david (Psalm 29)
… urban centers of Morocco, a further proof of the liturgical music links between these Jewish centers in the past and of … Amsterdam by the choir. The last verse receives a special musical treatment, a sort of cadential pattern that leads to …