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Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of … the Kyiv collection] has attracted the attention of musicians and scholars of Jewish music ever since they … the situation. At the same time, the availability of microfilmed copies of the five volumes of Beregovski’s mostly …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From … new technologies of mass dissemination (78 rpm records, films, radio stations, LPs and more). Its development was …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … well. With the rise in America of the consuming classes, film, and the radio, middle-men in music with a passion for … does not mention that this number was restored to the 1943 film of the show (and today of course that number is …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… has shown in a lifetime of work, the history of Jewish music is really a set of complex, interlocking histories. … The commercially-inspired music of the Yiddish-language film of the 1930s in Poland and the United States provides … Not intending to document a soon-to-vanish world, filmmakers and film composers deployed a number of myths, …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem … the Moroccan Arab and Hebrew traditions of Andalusian music, and by his profound knowledge of the Hebrew language … in part by our shared research at the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts at the National Library of Israel. …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… Moreover, the catalogue of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts at the National Library of Israel … and its documentation are therefore formidable. However, musical renditions of the piyyut are rather rare and will be … that Kikhlot yeini has survived in two apparently unrelated musical strands which we have labeled “Zionist” and “Jewish” …
Avi Bar-Eitan
… researcher, and lecturer. He received his Ph.D. in musicology at the Hebrew University, and his M.A. and M.Mus … chamber and orchestral music and music for theatre and film. He performs in many ensembles and collaborates with … more than twenty plays, the musical “Kolot,” documentary films, radio programs, music for the Playback Theatre, music …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … was released in 1993. Right around that time, two animated films from the Disney Studios were also released: Aladdin (1992) and The Lion King (1994). These films were milestones in the history of popular music in …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… of the opening stanza, is the refrain (the same words and music are repeated) and x, the last line of the rest of the … Thanks to the superb catalogue of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts (hereby: IMHM) at the National … Shofet kol ha’aretz.” This is the earliest mention of the music of our poem, and obviously it indicates that in the …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… Di beyde Kunilemel [4] in the award winning 1966 Israeli film Shnei Kuni Lemel , starring Mike Burstyn and directed by Israel Beker. The film originates in the Hebrew staging of Shenei Kuni Lemel … Shimon Cohen composed the original soundtrack for the 1966 film, which eventually found itself back on the stage as a …