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Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… of these musicians moved to Israel in the early 1950s, part of the Jewish exodus from Arab lands, which had become … beyond. Some of these young masters would become important artists of the highest caliber, in Israel and … among its cadre of regular musicians. This was clearly part of the IBA’s cultural policy following Israel’s …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… analysis of the composition, and an extensive biographical article. Racheli Galay , cello Amit Weiner , piano Recorded …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… between aging players and enthusiastic young musicians starting around the 1970s. Beginning with an archive of 78 rpm … scholarly careers. Which may explain why his book, which started as a dissertation, tends to read like a better-written … before the mid-late nineteenth century, but a necessary part of the klezmer discourse, and used here as foundation …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… pianist Willie “The Lion” Smith, an African-American, starts an enthusiastic conversation with bandleader Artie Shaw about Judaism. Although Shaw was a white … away, one sees that the only means of authenticating Artie Shaw as Jewish, and Willie “The Lion” Smith as not …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… daily calls to prayer within the streets of the Jewish Quarter. During her youth, she was surrounded by the women’s … these songs publicly. Rather, this repertoire remained part of the fabric of familial and communal life, transmitted …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… collection continue to this day, three decades after it started. The Jewish Music Research Centre (JMRC) is one of the … Kyiv collection for the benefit of the wider scholarly and artistic communities and the broader public. The present … the post-Soviet period. Had Adler read Zachary Baker’s 1992 article on the Jewish collections in Kyiv, he would have …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… 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 … innovation. Third, the use of instrumental music, most particularly the organ was a subject that resulted in …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… camps in Sudan—was housed in a nearby abandoned kindergarten. The center became home to older men who spun cloth on … Music Festival and the Red Sea Jazz festival. The kindergarten’s yard sported a traditional oven for baking injera … thesis. A joint performance of Meseret with Israeli rock artist Ehud Banai, the product of a chance encounter at the …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… and will be updated as new information is gathered. It is part of the JMRC project of publishing a critical edition … form is ABCB), two of them (A and B), comprising three quarters of the entire tune differ only in their opening bar. … of a large number of nigunim endowing this section with a particular emotional charge. In addition, the third section …
Curt Sachs
… a youth in that city. He began a career as an art historian, but promptly became more devoted to music, …