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Sarah Harat
… Conversations of a Yemenite Blacksmith” ( The Yemenites: History, Communal Organization, Spiritual Life , ed. Menahem … Obadiah Harat, son of the landlord Yehuda Harat. During the early stages of their marriage, they lived in the Beit … henna and wedding events, [ 1 ] and in those occasions her musical skills surfaced already at a young age when she …
‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… addition to ‘Lekhah Dodi.’ Even more important for the main musical argument of this Song of the Month (see below), the … and with many Hebrew loan words. The poem, which clearly dialogues with ‘Lekhah dodi’, is found in a manuscript … (230 five-verse stanzas) of salient moments in Jewish history alongside some description of Jewish life in a …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… Idelsohn's Hebrew and English biographies, written in the early 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared … composition with H.[einrich] Zӧllner [1854-1941] and history of music with [August Ferdinand Hermann] Kretzschmar …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great … in the Jewish past. A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern … it across the Baltic region, urban Germany, Ottoman and early British Palestine, Lithuanian Jewish South Africa, and …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… broadcasts was a series of three programs devoted to the history of the Israeli anthem "Hatikvah" (1964-1965). … throughout Israel, in formal institutions such as the music teachers’ seminary of the Levinsky College of … travelogues from his vast collection, as well as on the early modern Hebrew literature on nature, botany, zoology, …
El Jiwneh Hagalil (Lied der galilaischen Arbeiter) – God will Build the Galilee (Galilee Worker’s Song)
… of El yivneh ha-galil would fill an entire chapter in the history of the Jewish song (Seroussi 2010). Different … content of his album. El jiwneh Hagalil answered both the musical and pedagogical requirements of this album. … [1] Variants of this tune may be heard in early ethnographic recordings and interviews with …
Judith Cohen
… and lived in Tel Aviv. Cohen studied at "the seminary for music teachers" (1953-1956). After her military service, she … College. Cohen's research interests are Renaissance and early Baroque music, history and bibliography of Jewish music. She also research …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… Judith R. Cohen and Risto Pekka Pennanen In 2008 the Jewish Music Research Centre released a 4-CD package entitled An Early 20th-century Sephardi Troubadour: The Historic … “La canción tradicional sefardí ‘El mancebo enamorado’,” History and Creativity, eds. T. Alexander et al. Jerusalem: …
The Idelsohn Project
… Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in … Much of what continues to be taught uncritically as the history of Jewish music in schools, seminaries, synagogues, … physiognomy of Jewish Orientalism and its ties to early Arab- Jewish sociopolitical and cultural encounters in …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… Unlike its relatively simple form, “Fog al-Nakhal’s” history is complex, revealing a number of interrelated musical and textual settings. Looking into the information … familiarity with a version of “Balini-b balwa” from as early as the 1920’s in Baghdad, it could be that this strand …