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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 …
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 …
‘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 …
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 …
Sara Levi-Tanai
… teacher at the Levinsky Teachers' Seminary. In her early career, she worked as a teacher and kindergarten instructor, using music and dance to educate children and pass on Yemeni … mark on Israeli culture, making her a pivotal figure in the history of Israeli performing arts. Her artistic vision and …