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Michael Alexander
… https://religiousstudies.ucr.edu/full-time-faculty/michael-alexander/ … Associate Professor in Religious …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… of klezmer research that Rubin and his colleagues have cultivated over their performing and scholarly careers. …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… everything about the history of Jews and jazz music is difficult to categorize, analyze, or even begin to parse. For … felt a special affinity for African-Americans and their cultural forms due to shared experiences of oppression) and …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… within it. Warkov wanted to study processes of change and acculturation in musical practice, and the Iraqi musicians … country for over two decades. They had not only traversed cultural worlds, but had also suffered a deep loss of … and marginalized by mainstream (Western-oriented) Israeli culture. Only one Israeli institution— the Israeli Broadcast …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… , points out how Berlin completely neutralized both his own cultural background and that of the society he was selling … the imprint of Jewish figures upon [inter alia] … cultural and economic life and the arts and sciences … …
Dan Deutsch
… He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish … focusing on the confluence of musical formations and socio-cultural experiences within the music of German-Jewish …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… and the Worms (1980 [1976]) — which explores popular culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the eyes of a … his title. After all, Unger’s story involves a personal and cultural journey that begins with the emancipated and … experience that entails a flux of religious, national, and cultural configurations. But inasmuch as this biography is …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… The introduction offers English readers a survey of Jewish culture in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, … of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of the cultural life of Jews in Latvia, with emphasis on their … the part of Latvia where many Jews lived) “the language of culture and commerce had been German since the Middle Ages …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… she was also active in the promotion of multi-cultural music programs within the educational system of … musicology and Jewish music, and a mediator between German culture and scholarship and the nascent Israeli Jewish … second half of the 19 th century, music was examined cross-culturally using a variety of experimental methods drawing …