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The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… his A Voice Still Heard: The Sacred Song of the Ashkenazic Jews (University Park and London, 1976, pp. 100-101) … that the “Western” melody, i.e. Sulzer’s, is similar to German folk melodies, some documented as early as the … (1932, p. xxxix), which also refers to other possible German sources for this melody. Idelsohn included “She’eh …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… “From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” … Musik (Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Germany) and the Jewish Music Research Centre (Hebrew … vividly transpires in her encounters with Middle Eastern Jews eternalized in her voluminous recordings. Edith …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… maqam-oriented school of the Ades Synagogue of the Aleppan Jews. For many years, Nehemiah was cantor and preacher at … in Neo-Aramaic (the vernacular language of the Kurdish Jews), Kurmanji, Hebrew and Arabic. He was a sought-after … mostly (but not only) musical. This encounter between the German-born ethnomusicologist and her collaborator, the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… from minority communities which inhabited Latvia, namely, Jews, Roma, Russians, Germans, Lithuanians, Poles, Belarussians, Latgalians, … 1850s, decades after this practice was well established in Germany, but almost half a century before the first …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Gershom Scholem and Franz Rosenzweig, who formulated their German-Jewish identity within “the traditional bounds of … demonstrates the “complex, non-monolithic nature” of the German-Jewish experience that lies in the “interaction with … briefly discusses the precarious position of German-Jews in the context of Canadian Jewry in general, yet he …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… of one of Berlin’s more mediocre works, “Oh, how that German Could Love”in Berlin’s own 1909 recording (xiii-xv). … the show on the ground that there were already too many Jews involved in it. We are told that the Jewish moguls of … throughout his career, were also ethnic (if not religious) Jews. A book in such a series might be reasonably expected …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) … public emotions, of cross-cultural intersections between Jews with the surrounding Christian society, and of marking … that a new paradigm of Jewish liturgical music developed in German-speaking communities parallel to the gradual rise of …
Curt Sachs
… (1960): 88–89. (in French) … American musicologist of German birth, founders of modern organology … Musicologist … German Jews … American … organologist … Curt Sachs …
The Idelsohn Project
… It emerged from his problematic racial theories about Jews and his ethnographic search for a primordial ur-sound … of his autobiography written in Hebrew, English and German with added selections from the oral memoire of …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… the meaning of this word was unknown, not only to Jerusalem Jews, but also to Jews in Russia and Romania, and to all the children of the … to break away from the ghetto, such as the composer German composer of Jewish origin Giacomo Meyerbeer (whose …