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My Path to Jewish Music
… chamber and orchestral concerts of Jewish music through the Society for the Promotion of Jewish Music (Verein zur … his generous assistance in preparing this translation from German into English. Stutschewsky’s original emphases have been preserved throughout; whereas the original German edition used letter-spacing for emphasis, this …
Edith Gerson-Kiwi in Tehran (1961): Documents from a Revealing Journey
… A Phenomenological Study of the Musical Modes , the German-born Israeli ethnomusicologist Edith Gerson-Kiwi sets … European and emergent American centers. Carried out by a German-trained female scholar who immigrated to British … Farabi University, and later became the Head of the Iranian Society of Physics. Barkeshli authored numerous publications …
"Evolution of Jewish Music": Discourse Communities and Narrative Construction in the Performance of Music History
… superstar Lipa Schmeltzer’s “Gelt,” a 2003 song criticizing society’s obsession with money, while cleverly playing with … used disparagingly by adherents to the eighteenth-century German Enlightenment movement to describe a person “either … Jewish Cantorial Schools, 1904-1939.” Journal of the Society for American Music 11 (1): 25-52. …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… of the refugees from Spain…They did not mingle with German Jews…Their traditional tunes differ to a great extent … the Middle Ages. Peculiarly enough, these Jews accepted the German Ashkenazi Pessach tune of Adir Hu.” “Scientific” in … [1] Translations according to Jewish Publication Society, 1985 [2] See: Philippe Bobichon, Manuscrits en …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a … to recover Jewish culture, economics, politics, and society. Yet something of that texts and tears, martyrs and … as he experienced it across the Baltic region, urban Germany, Ottoman and early British Palestine, Lithuanian …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… to break away from the ghetto, such as the composer German composer of Jewish origin Giacomo Meyerbeer (whose … money for himself and get access to the British Jewish high society. This evidence supports Idelsohn’s report of his …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… to find a place for himself in the post-war Hungarian society, he fulfilled his dream and settled in the … Avigdor was already integrated into the fabric of the new society. His ties to the national religious movement and his … the Reverend Eliezer Abinun (1912-1998) and the Southern German liturgical tradition from Cantor Avigdor Unna …
Curt Sachs
… A Memorial Address'. Journal of the American Musicological Society 11, No. 1 ( 1958): 1-5. Gétreau Florence, ' Curt … 88–89. (in French) … 49665 … American musicologist of German birth, founders of modern organology … Kurt … Musicologist … German Jews … American … organologist … Curt Sachs … Curt …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) … intersections between Jews with the surrounding Christian society, and of marking of communal and regional … that a new paradigm of Jewish liturgical music developed in German-speaking communities parallel to the gradual rise of …
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). … appeal could extend across the many components of American society. As scholars including Charles Hamm have noted, his … both his own cultural background and that of the society he was selling to: “The two holidays that celebrate …
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 … on the honorary board of directors of the Gustav Mahler Society of America (19, 21, 79). Moreover, Unger nurtured …
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 … Jewish musicians affiliated with the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music: Lazare Saminski, who praised …


