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Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity . New York: Routledge, 2017. In Jews and Jazz , Charles Hersch has written an informative … for ethnic stage characters to perform, including Jewish, Italian, Irish, and also Black characters. Gershwin’s first …
Moshe Cordova
… set to Turkish classical music on the Sabbaths at the Italian Synagogue in Galata. This synagogue was also known … Europeans) since at least the late 1910s. It was founded by Jews of Italian origin who had broken away from the main body of the …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… start, it represents two of the four genres (Jewish, Irish, Italian, and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take on assumed … the show on the ground that there were already too many Jews involved in it. We are told that the Jewish moguls of … throughout his career, were also ethnic (if not religious) Jews. A book in such a series might be reasonably expected …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… Three Festivals and High Holidays, according to the minhag Italiani , also known as minhag Bnei Roma or minhag lo’azim … seven words. When exactly these verses entered the mahzor Italiani is hard to determine, but at the very latest one … surviving melody found in the oral tradition of the Italian Jews. He based his assessment by comparing Rossi’s setting …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… the publication of her dissertation on the art of the Italian madrigal in 1933, she emigrated to Italy and from … vividly transpires in her encounters with Middle Eastern Jews eternalized in her voluminous recordings. Edith … In many cases, those who formed part of this network were Jews of German or Central European extraction – some of them …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… and from the Comtat Venaissin (today Provence, France), the Italian communities of Casale Monferrato and Sienna, and the … texts “elevates” Jewish musical culture, and introduced the Jews to the mainstream European art music narrative even …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… of “Nuestro Señor Eloheinu” was circulating within the Italian Sephardic communities as early as the beginning of … example of “Yarad el hay” recorded by Leo Levy and sung by Italian cantor Simon Sacerdote of Livorno (first 33 seconds … “ Ballads, wedding songs, and piyyutim of the Sephardic Jews of Tetuan and Morocco ,” Track 09, Folkways Records, …
Three Musical Ceremonies for Hôšanā Rabbah in the Jewish Community of Casale Monferrato (1732, 1733, 1735) (Hebrew)
… communities … Manuscripts … Eighteenth (18th) Century … Italian Jews … Scores … Liturgical works … Oratorios … Cantatas … …
Traces of Jewish Musicians in the Writings of Lomazzo
… , vol. I (1968). … 0 … 23132 … Italy … Jewish musicians … Italian Jews … Renaissance … Jewish music … Jewish music research … …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… various Iraqi, Cochini (from Kerala in India), Algerian and Italian manuscripts which include our song. The spread of … its Sephardic origins, although other options (such as Italian) cannot be discarded. The unproven attribution to … below, attesting that it was known among the Baghdadi Jews until the last generation of immigrants to Israel in …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… in the past decade or two are the discoveries of the “Italian Genizah,” confiscated folios of Hebrew manuscripts … period, apparently predating its use among Sephardic Jews. Manuscript 85 of the Archivio Storico Comunale of … , Venice, 1587. This last appearance in the non-Ashkenazi Italian rite is also attested in several medieval …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a possible source of inspiration: Die Wacht am … Yigdal , see below under Ashkenazi hypothesis) with the Italian predecessors (see below Italian Renaissance hypothesis) could be explored. Many …


