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Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… and marginalized by mainstream (Western-oriented) Israeli culture. Only one Israeli institution— the Israeli Broadcast Authority (IBA) … musicians were an integral part of an Oriental orchestra operating under the auspices of the pre-1948 British …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… hazzan Azelio Servi: A quote from the journal Il Vessillo Israelitico LXX/1922 (XIX-XX), 297: PITIGLIANO […] Oltre … References Don Harrán (ed.), Salamone Rossi – Opera Omnia , 13 vols. Middleton: American Institute of …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… publication was planned as a collaboration with the late Israeli musicologist of Latvian origin Joachim Braun (Bar … Riga, who composed his first works there and conducted its opera, in 1934 led five concerts of all-Jewish programs with … introduction as much as it pertains to Zionism. Scholars of Israeli culture will find this discussion pertinent as it …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in … activities led to the institutionalization of musicology at Israeli universities and colleges, developing a focus on the … It was launched in the framework of the Research Cooperation Agreement Lower Saxony – Israel signed between …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… essentially immobile and inaccessible to many, especially Israeli Jews; second, the famous record’s copy on my mobile … to being synthesized with the ideological precepts of the Israeli-Palestinian/Arab conflict. Although aimed at … the Middle East as British Gramophone and German Odeon and operated in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Iran while …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , an insert of the … College in Cincinnati. Fast forward to the 1950s. A young Israeli scholar studying in Paris, Israel Adler (1925-2009), … of a distinguished gallery of performing artists in cooperation with the Israel Festival and the Israel …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… music, for example, one of the saddest arias in the opera repertoire was composed in the major mode: the lament … (Hebrew) Geshuri, Meir Shimon, ed. 1964. Kol Israel: Israeli Traditional Cantorial Anthology; with Compositions … ve-shirah [ The Sword of the Word: The Binding of Isaac in Israeli Poetry ]. Tel Aviv: Hakibbuẓ Hame’uḥad (Hebrew) …

Remarks Concerning the Use of the Melograph in Ethnomusicological Studies
… its promises, the time has come to discuss the Melograph in operation, the problems raised by the new musical material … We are presently engaged in a study of the music of Israeli Arabs, examining the music as a living tradition and …
Bernardo Feuer
… included arrangements of Jewish folk songs, choral parts of operas in the original language or translated to Yiddish, … to the city of Rosario (Santa Fe province) to work at the Israelite Association of Rosario. He led that institution’s … to Santiago de Chile to found the liturgical choir of the Israelite Circle. Israel Farba, a student of Feuer, was the …
The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer
… Jews that started in 1979 became publicized in the wake of Operation Moses when a significant proportion of the Jewish … and early January 1985. In the wake of this operation, the Israeli absorption authorities decided to gather the Qessoch … Tourny; and with the cooperation of various French and Israeli research institutes, a project of systematic …