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Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov, a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of … worked under the direction of Prof. Amnon Shiloah of the Hebrew University, an eminent scholar of music in the … her dissertation. The interest in the work of Warkow at the Hebrew University and her interaction with the local …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, … both in the Yiddish-speaking world as well as in the modern Hebrew song repertoire in the Land of Israel. I am grateful … College Archive of Jewish Sound; Dr. Michael Lukin from the Hebrew University; Maestro Raymond Goldstein; and Prof. …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … very remarkable feature demonstrates his resistance to the Hebrew-centered ethos of the Zionist movement and the … culture that emerged from it. Even when he recorded in Hebrew, as he did, the language was profusely peppered with …
Yonatan Turgeman
… PhD candidate in the Hebrew University Musicology Department, a fellow of the PhD Honors Program in … is Dead: A Theory & Short History of Everyday Songs in Hebrew', was published in 2017 (Hakibbutz Hameuchad). … …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… Istanbul. Here we encounter our song as a piyyut , with a Hebrew text, titled “Adonay hu elohenu” (The Lord is our God). It is fair to note that this Hebrew title is identical in meaning to the Judeo-Spanish … in sections according to the different Turkish makam s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … . Birnbaum introduces in it the score of Kol haneshamah , a Hebrew piece by composer Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti … he knew via the copies in Birnbaum’s collection at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. Fast forward to the …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone is the copy of a 78rpm record of a pizmon , a Hebrew para-liturgical hymn called “ Yom Yom Odeh ” (Every … pizmonim ) according to these musical forms and/or combined Hebrew sacred and poetic texts with melodies from …
Stefanie Mockert
… Mockert, who graduated in Musicology from Humboldt University, Berlin, is a researcher at the Hebrew University's Jewish Music Research Centré. Her … pre-WW-II. The project is advised by Prof. Edwin Seroussi (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) and Prof. Dr. Sarah Ross …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… In his pioneer publication Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new … comprehensive method for addressing the musical aspects of Hebrew liturgical poetry from an evolutionary diachronic …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” is a joint … Hannover, Germany) and the Jewish Music Research Centre (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel). It was launched in … There he founded the Archive for Oriental Music at the Hebrew University. Edith Gerson-Kiwi joined him, working as …