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The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… of Jerusalem, Israel). It was launched in the framework of the Research Cooperation Agreement Lower Saxony – … second section of her estate (letters and her voluminous field recordings) has already been endowed to the National … correspondence; newspaper reports and other items; field recordings; and copies of recordings from other …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Karnes’s intimate familiarity with Melngailis’s life work. The survey also includes a brief general history of … another thirteen may belong to this batch as well. The 1899 field work alone contained 120 songs performed by Jewish … 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
… composer Salamone Rossi (c. 1570-c. 1630) in his work Has hi rim asher lis hlomo . Rossi’s setting of the … first verse. He also chose to set the text in a modal framework that recalls the oral versions. All these factors: … minhag , the Romaniote. We may infer this from yet another field recording, this one carried out by another prominent …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked under the direction of Prof. Amnon Shiloah of the … grandparents’ countries of origin. As a crucial part of her fieldwork, Warkov collected priceless archival recordings in the …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… those books, New York Klezmer presents the long-gestating work of a major klezmer musician whose performing career … 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 …
Arabs - Jews - Music
… becoming a subject of growing interest in diverse scholarly fields. The JMRC has addressed this subject selectively in … studies addressing how Arab musical genres, modal frameworks and rhythms influenced the music of Jewish communities … page includes critical assessments of existing historical works, as well as new enterprises. (Project cover image is …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… were made socially feasible through the development of networks of individual musicians whose authority was acquired … access to prestigious pulpits. These musicians and their networks engaged in diverse types of relations (such as … and Eastern Ashkenaz that has been criticized in other fields of Jewish studies. The German model spread well …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… largely populated by new immigrants from Ethiopia, and working as a volunteer in Meseret , a center that supported … and music. Ethnomusicology was not yet available as a field of specialization for an undergraduate, but the … Israel community in Israel. In 1989, when I arrived in “the field,” over 20,000 Beta Israel had immigrated to Israel, …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… 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
… as “Balini-b balwa,” a version featured prominently in the work of Sara Manasseh, who conducted research on the … 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 …