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Moritz Rosenhaupt
By Edwin Seroussi
German cantor and composer Moritz/Moses Rosenhaput was born (see…
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
Introduction
Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other…
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the…
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac,…
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics:…
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019…
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the…
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
I spent the summer of 1989 living in a Nazareth Illit (today Nof HaGalil) neighborhood…
Hisqil Qassab
Hesqil Kassab was one of the most famous Iraqi maqam reciters in the twentieth…
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the recent passing of ethnomusicologist…