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Stefanie Mockert

… inspired by philosophical aesthetics, social history, and critical theory. Mockert has been involved in the joined …

The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar

… musical scholarhip.' (ibid., p. 305, note 47) Rather than criticize previous research, we would like to address two …

… contributions across many musical areas and disciplines, a critical appreciation and scholarly analysis of her life and … of this unique individual as well as to assemble a critical historical narrative highlighting the development … This fieldwork on Gerson-Kiwi will add an in-depth, critical dimension to our research data and will thus enable …

Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics

… by musicians in the Jewish community of Palestine. Critic Menashe Ravina (1942, 13), for example, called for …

Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor

… Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor unfortunately undermines its critical and historical value. On the one hand, the book … including countless flattering citations of contemporaneous critics and references to testimonials of Unger and his wife … yet in doing so, it often projects simplistic and uncritical perception of Unger’s figure. Since the scope of …

Samy’s Boys in Concert in the early 1950s (Courtesy of Yolande Amzallag, Foundation Samy Elmaghribi)

Music, Muslims and Jews

… vast geographical space. Finally, the project page includes critical assessments of existing historical works, as well …

Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv

… collection circulating more recently. Finally, yet no less critically, Adler, Zemtsovsky, and Alpert as well as …

German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections

… we emphasize printing technology as well as reception and criticism as integral components in the consolidation of the … construct of Western and Eastern Ashkenaz that has been criticized in other fields of Jewish studies. The German … medium to research and represent relevant resources. A critical and contextual examination of these repertoires in …

Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography

… reluctant parents. Finally, there is no engagement with critical theory and the prism it brought to ethnomusicology … Music and Identity Among Young Ethiopians in Israel.” Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies …