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Mikhail Gnesin
Gnesin was born in Rostov-on-Don, son to the local Rabbi. He began his musical…
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Michele Bolaffi
Michele Bolaffi was a distinguished musician and composer active in Livorno in the early…
Nahum Nardi
Nahum Nardi was born Nahum Narodietzky in 1901 to a religious-Zionist family in Kiev,…
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Neglected sources for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Synagogue Music: The Prefaces to Louis Lewandowski's Kol Rinnah U't'fillah and Todah W'simrah. Annotated Translations
The core of the article is a translation from the German of Lewandowski’s prefaces to…
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Liturgical-Musical Customs at the Dawn of a New Era: Continuity and Change in Salomon Geiger’s Divrey Kehillot
Geiger’s work testifies to the overwhelming continuity of the liturgical-musical customs…
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Hebraeisch-orientalischer Melodienschatz, 07[E]: Der traditionellen Gesaenge der sueddeutschen Juden [The Traditional Song of the South German Jews]
Also exists in German. The volume... 'contains the traditional songs of the German Jews…
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Hebraeisch-orientalischer Melodienschatz, 07[G]: Der traditionellen Gesaenge der sueddeutschen Juden
Also exists in English. The volume... 'contains the traditional songs of the German Jews…
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Hazzan and Qahal: Responsive Chant in Minhag Ashkenaz
Drawing upon textual references in minhag books, siddurim and mahzorim, the article…
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The Training of Hazzanim in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Prior to the advent of modernity, Ashkenazi hazzanim acquired their cantorial skills by…
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The Cantorial Fantasia Revisited: New Perspectives on an Ashkenazic Musical Genre
Based on MS sources of Maier Levi of Esslingen, Germany (1813–1874), the article…