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Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… especially because of the Holocaust, many congregations abandoned the chanting of piyyutim in general. Many …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… People (דורות זינגען – בשירת הדורות) published by the Farband Book Publishing Association in New York, c. 1961. A … in New York). Heifetz was for many years director of the Farband Culture Chorus and the music and choir director of …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… six Jewish musicians and one Muslim vocalist, Muhammad al-Qubandji (Barnea 1997, 74; Katz 2015, 147). [15] Personal …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… A Collection of Hebrew and Yiddish Songs . New York: Farband Book Publishing Association. Burstyn, Shay. 2015–16. …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… used in Italian rite synagogues in North Italy, has been abandoned in Rome in favour of the Sephardic reading (much to …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… of Jewish identity”, Unger’s biography arguably abandons the “frustrating model” of categorical inclusion or …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… Hamm have noted, his first huge hit “Alexander’s Rag-Time Band”(1911) broke the mould – the “exhortation to anyone and everyone to come and listen to a band has no precedent” (Hamm 1996, 66); in Berlin’s own … Hamm, Charles. 1966. “Alexander and His Band.” American Music 14/1: 65-102. Roth, Philip. 1994. …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… African-American, starts an enthusiastic conversation with bandleader Artie Shaw about Judaism. Although Shaw was a … came the Swing Era, with no shortage of white Jewish bandleaders, including Benny Goodman, who had the most popular band in America throughout the 1930s (and who also …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… the end of the Spanish Protectorate in 1956. Alicia, her husband, and their four children arrived in Israel in 1962 and …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… from refugee camps in Sudan—was housed in a nearby abandoned kindergarten. The center became home to older men … secure the performances of the young women dancers in the band, vis-à-vis reluctant parents. Finally, there is no … musical life among Ethiopian Jews in Israel highlight the abandonment of the traditional, rural-based musical practices …