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Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s Legacy
… place Yemenite Jews held within Idelsohn’s philosophies of Hebrew culture and history. Finally, Judah Cohen will … Loeffler, University of Virginia In Which Direction Do Hebrews Play Music?: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Musical … and the formation of Israeli culture. Scholars of Hebrew literature have focused particular attention on the role of …
In Which Direction Do Hebrews Play Music?: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Musical Aesthetics of Zionism
… Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Special panel (Plenary of Literatures, Languages and Arts Section) In collaboration … 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
… Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Special panel (Plenary of Literatures, Languages and Arts Section) In collaboration … Jewish music, as the first volume of his Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies will attest. However I will also …
Tamar de Sola Pool
… Jersey in 1904, but retained its Zionist spirit, speaking Hebrew at home. There Rabbi Hirschenson became a … from Hunter College in 1913, Pool taught comparative literature at Hunter from 1914 to 1917. She served as … le-halutse ha-yishuv u-vonav (Vol. 8, p. 3071- 3072) (In Hebrew) … Israeli-American academic and zionist leader … 0 … …
Morris Rosenfeld
… was also the publisher and editor of a quarterly journal of literature (printed in Yiddish) entitled ' Jewish Annals '. … 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 all shapes and forms. Even as a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College (now HUC-JIR), this last interest … activities that interpreted Jewish art, music, and literature. He was chairman of the National Jewish Music … prayer- songs, American folksongs, Yiddish lullabies, and Hebrew melodies; to his creative efforts as a composer, as a …
Efraim Yaakov
… degrees in the Department of History and Philosophy at the Hebrew University, where he served as an assistant to Prof. … of Hogeriya, documenting, recording, and publishing the literature and poetry of the Jews from Hogeriya in Israel. … of heritage programs at 'Kol Yisrael'. He has taught at the Hebrew University, Bar-Ilan University, the Open University …
Akiva Zimmermann
… , cantors, history of hazzanut , hazzanut in halakhic literature, and more. Zimmerman had an unconventional and … of hazzanut , but he also immersed himself in the world of Hebrew books and Hebrew culture at its best. He was well versed in literature …
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 … bookshelf was rich in Jewish (especially Hassidic) literature, but also plentiful with maskilim and Zionist …
Abraham Goldfaden
… as a teacher, Goldfaden published a collection of early Hebrew poems in 1862 in Ha-Meliz , and several of his … thereafter. In 1865 he published his first booklet of Hebrew songs, Zizim u-Ferahim , and in 1965 an additional … life involved in promoting the growing culture of Yiddish literature and theater. Click here to view the online …