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The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , an insert of the … College in Cincinnati. Fast forward to the 1950s. A young Israeli scholar studying in Paris, Israel Adler (1925-2009), … which he finished upon his return to Israel in the early 1960s. This thesis was submitted to the Sorbonne and …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… Odeh ” (Every day I am grateful), which was released in the early 1920s by the Lebanese record label Baidaphon, the … the Arab-Ottoman world during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. In musical terms, the Nahda is … essentially immobile and inaccessible to many, especially Israeli Jews; second, the famous record’s copy on my mobile …
Stefanie Mockert
… Sacred Musical Intersections ” supported by the German-Israel Foundation, in which framework she contributed a study on the early modern community in Munich “Musical Transformation of … career Mockert performs and teaches piano in Europe and Israel. She is studying with Prof. Denis Burstein at the …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Jewish historical memory, this fast day has not generated nearly as much Hebrew poetical creativity as the Ninth of Av, … in this text. Indeed, as part of his acerbic approach to Israeli musicology in general and to the work of Avenary in … in one of the oldest Ashkenazi orders of prayers, dated as early as the twelfth century (Ms. Or. fol. 1224 …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in … non-European Jewish communities whose members relocated to Israel after 1948. She contributed significantly to the … among a new generation of American-born scholars since the early 1950s. Numerous letters that Gerson-Kiwi exchanged …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… 2. 'Bore 'ad ana,' Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew Poetry , Israel Davidson As shown above in the list of printed … communities of Italy (Venice, Modena, Livorno) since the early seventeenth century, and not always in relation to the … is one of the many meetings of this type characteristic of early Israeli musical ethnography. They rendered precious …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… publication was planned as a collaboration with the late Israeli musicologist of Latvian origin Joachim Braun (Bar … the Middle Ages for Jews and non-Jews alike,” while “in the early 1900s, Russian began gradually to overtake German” (p. … claim for centricity). Yet the end of section 3, then, clearly reverts to harmonic minor. Melngailis notates E as the …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… מִשָּׁמַיִם וּרְאֵה; וּפְקֹד, גֶּפֶן זֹאת Clearly, the liturgist who set this passage noticed that verse … medieval period. These verses already appear in the very early and magnificent Mahzor Soncino- Casalmaggiore printed … of this pledge of the praying voice (the community of Israel). He accomplished that by making each verse more …
Moshe Cordova
… Cordova (b. Edirne, Ottoman Empire, 1881 – d. Tel Aviv, Israel, 22.12.1965) was a master of the Turkish ma ka m . … since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge about Cordova’s early years there is meager. A turning point in his life was … Paşa Street was dedicated in 1886. During its heyday in the early twentieth century, Jewish singers from various …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish … Iraqi music. Most of these musicians moved to Israel in the early 1950s, part of the Jewish exodus from Arab lands, … citizens among its cadre of regular musicians. This was clearly part of the IBA’s cultural policy following Israel’s …