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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 …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of … inspections of the collections.” (Zachary M. Baker, History of the Jewish Collections at the Vernadsky Library … pp. 5-7). This report is not only illuminating for the early pictures of Dr. Irina Sergeyeva and Dr. Lyudmila …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … The historical period under investigation dates from the early 19 th century up to World War II, investigating these … to integrate them within the narratives of European music history. Such a comprehensive approach does not …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the recordings … Among these paraliturgical practices, the repertoire of the early morning winter vigils called bakkashot received … poems (piyyutim) spanning almost a millennium of literary history. This textual mixture creates a sonic tapestry that …
Pete Sokolow
… in the Catskills span older and newer generations of Jewish musicians. Sokolow has played with many major figures in klezmer history, including Dave Tarras , the Epstein Brothers , and … Sokolow play the piano. Doyna: Hot Jazz meets Klezmer . Early Morning Blues by James P. Johnson , Pete Sokolow on …
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 …
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 …
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: …
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 …