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Yehiel 'Adaki
… he organized a choir of eighty boys in the Ezrat A h im society. Later, he was invited by the Tel Aviv city council …
Yaakov Huri
… a profile of the man, his ideals and his standing in society. We supplemented heir detailed testimony with a … grant “From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” a … Musik (Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Germany) and the Jewish Music Research Centre (Hebrew …
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 …
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 …
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 …

Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… Miron, piano, and was released by the Musical Heritage Society Inc. under the direction of Dr. Michael Naida. His …
Pnina Salzman
… Leeds (England); Seoul; Dublin; Munich and Dortmund (Germany); Beijing; Sydney; Pretoria; “Marguerite Long” …
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 …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… Different scholars cited two nineteenth-century patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a possible source of inspiration: … some of them borrowed from the surrounding non-Jewish society. [29] Ashkenazi Hypothesis Also Ashkenazi melodies …