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In Which Direction Do Hebrews Play Music?: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Musical Aesthetics of Zionism
… Studies Jerusalem Special panel (Plenary of Literatures, Languages and Arts Section) In collaboration with the Jewish … Zionism and the formation of Israeli culture. Scholars of Hebrew literature have focused particular attention on the … and European models in the aesthetic development of Modern Hebrew culture. This paper proposes to explore what …
The Father of Jewish Musicology and the Natives: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Yemenites
… Studies Jerusalem Special panel (Plenary of Literatures, Languages and Arts Section) In collaboration with the Jewish … Jewish music, as the first volume of his Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies will attest. However I will also …
Morris Rosenfeld
… edition sold out, and the book was soon translated into six languages. Following this success, he left his work as a … York in 1904. Three of Rosenfeld's poems were adapted into Hebrew and became popular in Israel: The Yiddish poem ' … Avot '; ' Ir Kleine Lichteleech ' was translated into Hebrew as ' Nerotay Hazeirim ' ('The Tiny Candles') became a …
Avraham Soltes
… in 1916, barely after mastering this country and its language. Avraham Soltes was well-designed to nurture … in all shapes and forms. Even as a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College (now HUC-JIR), this last interest … prayer- songs, American folksongs, Yiddish lullabies, and Hebrew melodies; to his creative efforts as a composer, as a …
Amnon Netzer
… history and culture as well as Persian and Judeo-Persian languages. Netzer founded Israel Broadcasting … Service in 1958 and was a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem until his death in 2008. Full … Amnon Netzer , Institute of Asian and African Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (first draft, 2004). A list …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… (now Mysłowice, Poland), Geshuri (a name derived from the Hebrew for “bridge,” an equivalent of the German “Bruck”) … on, the new “rebirth” songs ( Shirat Hate h iya , i.e. Hebrew songs of Zionist content). Since there were not … his early engagement with the creation of a Zionist musical language. In this context, his association with the …
Yizhak Edel
… two years. In Moscow Edel witnessed the persecution of the Hebrew language by the communist regime, especially in the case of … First, he had tried to gather songs by Jewish musicians and Hebrew poets. Since the quantity did not suffice him, he …
Joseph Achron
… best marked by one of his earliest and most famous works, A Hebrew Melody (1911). In 1913 he moved to Russia to take a … was a local merchant and a maskil, an expert on classical Hebrew and a baal-kore in the synagogue who also taught … by his persistent aspiration to create his own musical language. During his childhood, Achron absorbed the …
Eliezer S. Abinun
… of its former main Sephardi synagogue, now a museum. Both Hebrew and Ladino were spoken at home; and Abinun was thus … cultural heritage of the London community. His knowledge of Hebrew grammar and literature was deep and broad. He remarked that he had origin-ally studied the language not because it was a requirement at the seminary …
Dudu Barak
… I wrote the song. But the song brought it into common language.' Dudu Barak is both a poet and a Pizmonai, … Another aspect found in the works of Dudu Barak are Hebrew lyrics written in a variety of musical styles. He writes mostly Hebrew lyrics to Mediterranean songs in Greek, Moroccan, …