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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 … It was launched in the framework of the Research Cooperation Agreement Lower Saxony – Israel signed between …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… 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 … Riga, who composed his first works there and conducted its opera, in 1934 led five concerts of all-Jewish programs with …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… phase of fame in 1925, but Berlin steadfastly refused to cooperate with others who wished to write about him (except … of one of Berlin’s more mediocre works, “Oh, how that German Could Love”in Berlin’s own 1909 recording (xiii-xv). … by mid-twentieth century middle USA. Philip Roth, in his Operation Shylock , points out how Berlin completely …
Oratorio Ester - The salvation of Israel by Esther (Video)
… libretto by Jacob Raphael Saraval, with French, English and German. A full video documentation with Hebrew, English and …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… technician. This new setting liberated the scholar from operating the equipment and allowed him to dedicate his full … the Reverend Eliezer Abinun (1912-1998) and the Southern German liturgical tradition from Cantor Avigdor Unna …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… to break away from the ghetto, such as the composer German composer of Jewish origin Giacomo Meyerbeer (whose … to open itself to the all-embracing effect of a future opera in Hebrew, i.e., the possibility and necessity of …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a … as he experienced it across the Baltic region, urban Germany, Ottoman and early British Palestine, Lithuanian … anecdote about the sparking moment of inspiration of the opera Yiftah and the participation of Idelsohn’s choir in …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… and in some details. A third, partial autobiography in German was located in 2017 in a batch of uncatalogued … of the Hebrew Union College (HUC) in New York City. This German text provides insights into Idelsohn’s ancestors … I was accepted in the Stern’sches Conservatorium in the opera-class of Seidemann. [8] The Director of the …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… article appeared in parallel columns in English, French and German in Musica Hebraica (1-2 [1938]: 18-20), the very … was particularly brilliant; in a period before the French opera was born, art musicians from Italy produced at the … [6] The cantor from Alsace was obviously of Ashkenazi (German) origin. [7] Unlike our observation in note 2 above, …