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Felix Mendelssohn- Gustav Mahler: Two Borderline Cases of German- Jewish Assimilation
Mendelssohn and Mahler represent the attempts of Jewish composers to assimilate into…
Driven into Paradise: The Musical Migration from Nazi Germany to the United States
Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies…
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
In 1958, on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk…
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
If you have ever searched for Hatikvah online, you were surely exposed to a barrage of…
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
Introduction
Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other…
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac,…
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
On March 15, 1899, the distinguished scholar, cantor, composer and avid manuscript…
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
Introduction
It is November 15, 2016 and I am sitting in a car, driving on a mountain…
Nili Belkind
Dr. Nili Belkind is an ethnomusicologist whose specialty areas include the Middle East…