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Edith Gerson-Kiwi in Tehran (1961): Documents from a Revealing Journey
… by the playlist Edith Gerson Kiwi’s Recordings of Musical Traditions from Iran . “Persia’s geographical … in her awe at a hotel room with a private bathroom. Ethnic stereotypes abound; for example, she finds in the … on October 2, 1954. Yet, despite its name, by that time the ethnic composition of the congregation could hardly be …
Pre-Mediation and the Crisis of Experiential Memorialization: Listening to the Nova Exhibition
… gathered in the Negev Desert for the Supernova music festival. [1] By day’s end, armed Hamas militants had … Survivors’ voices, silence, ambient sound, and curated music shape how visitors process space as powerfully as … 2004. “Before Hebrew Song.” In Nationalism, Zionism, and Ethnic Mobilization of the Jews in 1900 and Beyond, ed. …
Ezra Barnea
… Above all Barnea was an educator, but also a synagogue musician, paytan and cantor, an expert on the Jerusalem … he became acquainted with the prayer customs of different ethnic groups. He also learned and became expert in the … repertoire of Jerusalem, a repository of paraliturgical music in which different Oriental traditions of piyyut …
Yaakov Huri
… relations dominating the encounters between European ethnomusicologists and their subjects of inquiry in Israel. Our … as cantor not only by Babylonian Jews, but by other ethnic groups in Jerusalem, Greeks, Persians, Kurds and … of classifying the “Oriental” Jews according to “’edot” (ethnic communities, sing. ‘eda), a norm that goes back to …
Book Review: Music’s Making - The Poetry of Music; The Music of Poetry
… Cherlin M., Music’s making: The Poetry of Music, the Music of Poetry . SUNY Press, 2024. In a letter … a separate book? Hardly Cherlin’s Judaism is not a bit of ethnic color in an otherwise gentile society, but an …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… study aims to trace the unique characteristics of a type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European … Hasidic repertoire.” Although the dominant function of this music was not aesthetic contemplation but rather the … folk music as well as in the music of smaller local ethnic groups, such as Roma. Despite clear affinities to …
סיור סליחות מבוזר: תיווכו של הפיוט "אדון הסליחות" מבתי הכנסת הספרדיים אל המוזיקה הפופולרית בישראל
… Spain to the Four Corners of the Earth." Inter-American Music Review 17 (1-2): 77-90. Barnea, Ezra. 1996. "The … and Pamela Squires-Kidron. 1989. "Musica Mizrakhit: Ethnicity and Class Culture in Israel." Popular Music 8 (2): … of California Press. Khazzoom, Aziza. 2008. Shifting Ethnic Boundaries and Inequality in Israel. Stanford: …
Music of the Jews of Monastir
… Selected recordings documenting the musical tradition of the Jews of Monastir may be accessed … ecosystems. Jews were active participants in the multiethnic urban musical genre known as chalgija (from Turkish … They performed alongside musicians from all of Monastir’s ethnic groups in chalgija ensembles, which formed a central …
Sara Levi-Tanai
… she worked as a teacher and kindergarten instructor, using music and dance to educate children and pass on Yemeni … innovative teaching materials, including original songs and music, gained significant recognition and have been used by … Bahat. Tel Aviv: Inbal Dance Theater, Multi-Disciplinary Ethnic Center, 2012. Available online on Avner Bahat's …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared … all of the synagogue music from each of the exisitng ethnic groups, for instance, the Yemenites, Babylonians, … create from all of the different traditions of all of the ethnic groups a unified version and to teach music and …
Isaac Levy
… Mandatory Palestine. Levy studied at the Conservatory of Music in Jerusalem (now the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance) and in Tel Aviv at the Samuel Rubin Israel … In 1963, he was nominating as director of the section of ethnic music of Kol Yisrael. His life's work was devoted to …
Naomi Bahat-Ratzon
… the majority of her work. In addition, Bahat-Ratzon is a music and dance educator. In 2012 she won the Shabazi Prize … in light of their contribution to the research of the music and dance of the Yemenite Jewish communities in … also published numerous articles and books focusing on ethnic music and dance in Israel. For more information about …


