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«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, the composer Solomon Rosowsky published a … creative tension at the root of modern Russian-Jewish culture as a whole: the conflict between Russian imperial … “biblical” Hebrew (or “evrei”) with the bad contemporary diasporic “Yid” (“zhid”). On the other hand, though, there …
Teplik: My Shtetl
… … 18 … 1 … Buenos Aires … … 1946 … Velvl Tshernovetski … Diasporic Jewish Culture … Jewish community … Ashkenazi … Valentin …
La Gallarda matadora
… Jews in the various countries where they settled. In their diasporic communities Sephardim sang a repertoire of songs … who brought the seeds of flamenco to Spain. Moreover, the Jewish expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula occurred … borrowed from or influenced by the music of the surrounding cultures where the Sephardic Jews lived. For example, …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… Studying Hatikvah shows how a distinct Zionist music culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its … studying Hatikvah informs us about the modern crisis of the diasporic Jewish community and its splintering into discrete …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… and European Zionism, mid-century Yiddish secular culture, the contemporary klezmer scene, and even into … learned while in Israel, this text seems better suited for diasporic Jews than those who were already actually in … from a seminar on modern Hebrew song in American Jewish culture conducted by Dr. Edwin Seroussi, the Joyce Z. …
Assaf Shelleg
… Schusterman Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology and Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at … in the Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department at Washington University in St. … much as they facilitated their dialectical returns to diasporic Jewish cultures, returns that among other …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern … them had immigrated. Against the paradigm whereas Yiddish culture had a “one-way” circulation, from the Old to the New … of Nature).Thus, Edelstadt’s song conceived in the diasporic Zion, America, and in the vernacular language of …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… “From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” is a … musicology and Jewish music, and a mediator between German culture and scholarship and the nascent Israeli Jewish … currents of particularism and universalism, based on the diasporic legacies of Jewish immigrants, which were soon to …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… volunteer in Meseret , a center that supported traditional Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and … events and as a means of introducing tourists to Ethiopian culture. Traditional Ethiopian musical instruments including … with social theory and particularly with race and Afro-Diasporic studies for understanding how social processes are …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… the article “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the … so much to its immediate Muslim neighbors but rather to the diasporic Jewish commonwealth of Sephardic and Oriental … resistance to centripetal forces affecting the religious culture of the Jews from Islamic countries in Israel. …