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Yaakov Huri
… of the ‘edot”, a nomenclature that was favored by the Israeli folkloristics and media. To cover such vast … Kiwi selected, as was the norm with Idelsohn and later Israeli ethnographers, what used to be called “key … of Jerusalem, Israel) in the framework of the Research Cooperation Agreement Lower Saxony – Israel (Aktenzeichen: …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… (2015), who focuses on the “contemplative” nigunim of the Israeli Habad Hasidim, and combines musicological … in an extensive study of a different sub-genre—the Israeli Hasidic dance-nigunim repertoire—by Yaakov Mazor, … thinking, waltz-like and march-like melodies, and some operatic gestures, numerous nigunim by the Ukrainian and …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… (يوسف زعرور) was born in Baghdad in either 1902 or 1896—per Israeli immigration documents—to a family of ten children. … that Zaarur headed such a school, at least not as a formal operation. Moreover, we know that the Al-Kuweiti brothers … in Baghdad as a Palestinian refugee during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war; see Dori 2022:198 ). Zaarur trained numerous …
Haim Louk
… identity, also housed a synagogue, where a large choir operated. Participation in the choir was a compulsory aspect … , and the Piyyut Festival , collaborating with leading Israeli musicians. In 2011, he was awarded the Ministry of … via Wikimedia Commons) … 73 … 41400 … A leading Israeli Paytan, representative of North African piyyut …
Léibele Schwartz
… Borenstein , and on the bilingual radio program La Hora Israelita (The Jewish Hour) in the Radio Porteña station. In … to Argentina in 1970, Schwartz became the cantor of the Israelite Congregation of the Argentine Republic, known as … a wide repertoire that included Jewish liturgical music, opera arias and works from the repertoire of the musical …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… anecdote about the sparking moment of inspiration of the opera Yiftah and the participation of Idelsohn’s choir in … at the Lämel School inspired Father to compose the opera, “Yifta h .” [8] His study was full of papers in his … Marcus, Amy D. Jerusalem 1913: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict . New York: Viking, 2007, chapter 5. The …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… and musicological upbringing soon opened doors of the young Israeli educational system, such as a teaching position at … condition that a tape recorder, then a rarity in the young Israeli musicological scene, be purchased to carry out field … technician. This new setting liberated the scholar from operating the equipment and allowed him to dedicate his full …

Oratorio Ester - The salvation of Israel by Esther (Video)
… Andreas Post, Tenor (Mordecai); Chen Reiss, Soprano (Donna Israelita); David Sebba, Baritone (Haman); Alexander …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… host society and also, inculcated with hegemonic values of Israeli citizenship. Meseret (“Tradition”), the brainchild … of Gadi Negusse—who arrived with his family during Operation Moses of 1984-5, when over 6,000 Ethiopian Jews … immigrants. Many found it difficult to integrate into the Israeli economy and society, due to language barriers, …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… opening of the Russian and Ukrainian archives of Judaica to Israelis in the post-Soviet period. Had Adler read Zachary … At the same time, we engaged in a collaborative Ukrainian/Israeli project in the framework of the scientific cooperation between both countries together with the …