(88 results found)
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… another thirteen may belong to this batch as well. The 1899 field work alone contained 120 songs performed by Jewish … song enthusiasts. The website (in Hebrew only) provides recordings, texts, and original non-Hebrew songs (in the … assumptions, is a meaningful contribution to the expanding field of uncovering unattended archives. This is …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… i.e. accompanying the second Torah scroll of Festivals. Recordings of cantors from three different communities in … version, perhaps because he was unaware of the other recordings of the same text in the Leo Levi collection. In … minhag , the Romaniote. We may infer this from yet another field recording, this one carried out by another prominent …
Moshe Cordova
… to his musical career he developed a business in the field of textiles and tailoring. Upon his settlement in … of cantor Refael Elnadav in Brooklyn. Few precious recordings of Cordova’s voice have survived. At least two …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… grandparents’ countries of origin. As a crucial part of her fieldwork, Warkov collected priceless archival recordings in the form of interviews and living room …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… around the 1970s. Beginning with an archive of 78 rpm recordings, the field gained depth as musicians conducted oral histories, … because of the status of recordings as the field’s core primary resource—he offers background on the …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… and Eastern Ashkenaz that has been criticized in other fields of Jewish studies. The German model spread well … archives, notably printed and manuscript scores, archival recordings, private estates of composers, cantors and … of unavailable rare sources, performances of unknown works, recordings and design of educational programs and materials. …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the recordings analyzed in detail in that article. Research of … research. Although liturgical issues emerged during early fieldwork among Moroccan Jews in Israel, it was always a … rooted in the mother community in Morocco. My long-term fieldwork experience in Moroccan synagogues shows that this …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… a popular Arab song through the disbursement of commercial recordings. In addition, it is possible to trace how … of “Fog al-Nakhal,” explored below. Manasseh conducted field recordings of Jewish immigrants from Baghdad to … from Baghdad as a young man in 1932. She also received a field recording of the mother of classical composer Brian …
Salamone Rossi’s HaShirim Asher LiShlomo in its Fourth Centennial (5383-5783)
… Hebrew settings time after time and these performances and recordings become readily available online. Academic events … a constructive one, to stress how modern discourses shape a field of inquiry and what are the motivations and interests …
El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… Joel Bresler’s magnificent collection of 78 rpm recordings of Sephardic music is well-known to all those … , a world leader in the digital recovery of historical recordings. Among these recordings there are numerous 78 rpm … of this piyyut in Wahran can be heard in two additional field recordings by two prominent figures of Waharani …