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Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone is the … Odeh ” (Every day I am grateful), which was released in the early 1920s by the Lebanese record label Baidaphon, the …
Stefanie Mockert
… Mockert, who graduated in Musicology from Humboldt University, Berlin, is a researcher … perspective inspired by philosophical aesthetics, social history, and critical theory. Mockert has been involved in … in which framework she contributed a study on the early modern community in Munich “Musical Transformation of …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new … this date was associated with other catastrophes in Jewish history. In spite of its prominence in Jewish historical memory, this fast day has not generated nearly as much Hebrew poetical creativity as the Ninth of Av, …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” is a joint … interfacing between multiple musical disciplines, history, comparative musicology and Jewish music, and a … 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
… piyyut ,' [In Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim … communities of Italy (Venice, Modena, Livorno) since the early seventeenth century, and not always in relation to the … such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … life work. The survey also includes a brief general history of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of … the Middle Ages for Jews and non-Jews alike,” while “in the early 1900s, Russian began gradually to overtake German” (p. …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… of the boy Berlin in the New York streets and docks, his early encounter of a Christmas tree at the dwelling of the … early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … November 25, 2020. https://robertgreenbergmusic.com/music-history-monday-the-melody-lingers-on-irving-berlin/ Hamm, …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of … Iraqi music. Most of these musicians moved to Israel in the early 1950s, part of the Jewish exodus from Arab lands, … who maintained a living connection to the tradition. History, however, proved her wrong. Starting in the 1990s, …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras . Syracuse: … (2015) and Walter Zev Feldman’s Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory (2016). Like those books, New York …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… , Charles Hersch has written an informative and penetrating history of Jews in American jazz music, which should become a first stop for those wishing to … some understanding of the complicated subject. Indeed, nearly everything about the history of Jews and jazz music is …