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Curt Sachs
… Born in Berlin, Sachs studied piano, music theory and composition as a youth in that city. He began a … founders of modern organology (the study of the nature and history of musical instruments), he collaborated with Erich … can be accessed online. Sachs Curt. World History of the Dance , (Ed. 1963). Biographies: Brown Hoard Mayer. 'Sachs, …
El Jiwneh Hagalil (Lied der galilaischen Arbeiter) – God will Build the Galilee (Galilee Worker’s Song)
… study of El yivneh ha-galil would fill an entire chapter in the history of the Jewish song (Seroussi 2010). Different tunes, variations of …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … because they loved to show their emotions through song, dance and gesturing with their hands. Father stood by his …
Sarah Harat
… Sana'a in 1922 to Abraham Khobara and Yonah (Khamama) from the Beit Halevi family. In 1930, when she was eight years … Conversations of a Yemenite Blacksmith” ( The Yemenites: History, Communal Organization, Spiritual Life , ed. Menahem … scholarly education, an unusual feature for young Yemenite Jewish girls at the time. Sarah was exposed to the …
Sara Levi-Tanai
… renowned for her significant contributions to dance and theater in Israel. Her works, deeply rooted in Jewish and Yemenite traditions, significantly shaped … mark on Israeli culture, making her a pivotal figure in the history of Israeli performing arts. Her artistic vision and …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… Tish-nigunim in the Post-vernacular Era This study aims to trace the unique … as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is … of this conceptualization to the study of the cultural history of eastern-European Jews (ibid., 82–110). The …