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Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… for us”) by Yosef Shalom Gallego. Born in Saloniki (then part of the Ottoman Empire) in the last third of the … style of religious Hebrew song, which had developed starting in the sixteenth century in the Ottoman Empire. … patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. Purim, Purim Lanu (Ladino …
Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… presented by Prof. Edwin Seroussi on December 13, 2020 as part of a American Friends of the Hebrew University program, … Prof. Seroussi offers a master class on contemporary Jewish music scholarship and methodology. … Chanukkah … Hanukkah …
David Conway
… David Conway is an Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College, … Studies in 2019-20. His publications include Jewry in Music: Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to … opera company HGO. (Photo credit: Smerus ) … British music historian … David Conway …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… obsessed with copyrights, refused permissions to third parties even to cite a few words from his lyrics. As a … early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … songs on the radio. But a little research on my own part, asking friends and acquaintances around the world (120 …
Dan Deutsch
… Deutsch is currently an Azrieli postdoctoral fellow in the Musicology Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He earned … music against the backdrop of his social status as part of a Jewish minority. In his current research, he …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… historical knowledge while assuming a distinction between particular agencies and general historical trajectories. … interest, it also aspires to commemorate a forgotten artist. Justifiably or not, Unger did not gain international … in Unger’s history: Unger decided to “devote his life to music making” after hearing Mahler’s Lied von der Erde ; he …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… from archives around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which … Sephardic singers of Salonica. It was still mentioned in an article in the Ladino journal El Mesajero (Salonica, 1939) … such as the transformation of the Turkish “ya yürek” (oh, heart) to “ya Yuri” (Yuri being the name of the groom) and the …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… (“customs” or “traditions”) once the printing press started to produce prayer books in rapidly increasing numbers … the liturgist who set this passage noticed that verse 15 departed too much from the pattern of the other three verses, … return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical performance of the three verses. The precious Leo …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … from Melngailis’s collection (nos. 65 and 74). Melngailis started collecting Jewish songs in 1899 in Keidan (Lithuania), … considered lost, were retrieved by Karnes (apparently only partially, as will be shown below) and are presented to the …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim Beinart on the occasion of his seventieth birthday , ed. Aharon … such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … and North African versions in the article entitled “Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient …