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Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s Legacy
… Legacy: Eighty Years after the Publication of Jewish Music in its Historical Development The year 2009 marks the … culture. Scholars of Hebrew literature have focused particular attention on the role of literary translation and … no doubt a result of ardent national consciousness on his part, as well as sheer intellectual curiosity. The paper will …
Ashkenazic and Italian Liturgy
… to the Italian Tradition of Turin Knowledge of the musical traditions of the Jews in Italy, who followed a … Jews who settled in the Italian Peninsula, is still at a starting point. The pioneering fieldwork by Leo Levi … as a dynamic area of cultural interaction. Ruth HaCohen, Department of Musicology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem …
Contemporary American Jewish Music
… Contemporary American Jewish Music Chair: Ruth HaCohen Joel E. Rubin, Department of Music, University of Virginia “Redefining what a … the past thirty years, as well as an examination of their artistic output, I trace an aesthetic shift away from the …
Bloch: Known and Unknown
… how Bloch’s pursuit of the universal through the ‘racially particular’ was an outcome of a complex response to Wagnerian racial-musical theory via the intermediary of Houston Stuart Chamberlain and his French translator Godet. Yet there …
The Jewish Bloch
… Chair: Malcom Miller Zecharia Plavin, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance Bloch's Jewish-Hebrew musical narrative of … situation, his works still managed to create within parts of European public a vision of 'Jewish-Hebrew nation', … Valentine Professor of Music, Amherst College, Music Department Testing the Limits of the Human Universal: Ernest …
Documenting and Performing Ashkenazi Music
… Documenting and Performing Ashkenazi Music Chair: James Loeffler Yelena Irzabekova, Germany … works: a critical review on Musikalischer Pinkos and an article on multilingual Jewish songs. The review stated … the methods of collecting Jewish folk music heritage. The article contained analysis of multilingual Jewish songs, the …
Jewish Identities and Ideologies in Music
… Jewish Identities and Ideologies in Music Chair: Boaz Tarsi Ruth Davis, Cambridge University … with prevailing trends in Zionist ideology; and how, in particular, Lachmann’s scholarly vision and methods were … and their unusual data on Jewish-Christian relations, particularly as they concern the unrelenting pressure brought …
Between Israeli and Jewish in Music
… Between Israeli and Jewish in Music Chair: Jehoash Hirshberg Olivier Tourny, CNRS, … situation has deeply divided the Ethiopian community. Part of it chose to abandon its traditions in favour of … religious services in neighbourhood synagogues. Another part chose to remain faithful to the ritual practices of its …
Is Israeli Art Music Jewish?
… Studies Jerusalem Session: Between Israeli and Jewish in Music, 5.8.09 Chair: Yehoash Hirshberg Summary: While the … Jewish music itself—many of the founders of Israeli art music stayed away from what they considered as Jewish … prescriptive definitions of Israeli music, Boskovich, Partos, Seter, and Tal succeeded in convincing musicologists …
Shevirath ha-kelim: The breaking of the vessel
… and gong. The work was commissioned by the National Jewish Musical Art Foundation for the fiftieth anniversary of …