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In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness through music challenged the normative status of … of old. Browsing through my private collection of Jewish songsters in search for new songs for Passover for my …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… as the first half of the 18th century: Venice, with its history of Hebrew printing presses and trade; and the … connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common source, … proposed that musical diversity is the natural state of Jewish culture. Lidarti’s setting was a case exemplifying … Driven by a nationalist-oriented agenda to constitute a history of Jewish music in Europe which would resonate with …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone is the … made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long … as elsewhere in the Arab world during the Nahda era, Jewish musicians played an active role in the performance …
Stefanie Mockert
… Berlin, is a researcher at the Hebrew University's Jewish Music Research Centré. Her studies focus on the … perspective inspired by philosophical aesthetics, social history, and critical theory. Mockert has been involved in … the joined research projects with the European Center for Jewish Music, Hanover: “ From Berlin to Jerusalem and back - …
Clara Wenz
… project chronicles the present and past lives of a Syrian-Jewish musical record which was released by the Lebanese … Academic Foundation), 2016-2019 Mildred Loss Studentship, Jewish Music Institute (JMI), SOAS, 2015-2019 Employment … (CAAS), 9th Symposium, Paris, France, 19-20 Oct 2018. “History on Rewind: Traveling with an Arab-Jewish Baidaphon …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… in Hebrew) for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, a fast day in Jewish tradition marking the breach of Jerusalem’s … this date was associated with other catastrophes in Jewish history. In spite of its prominence in Jewish …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… “From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” is a … für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Germany) and the Jewish Music Research Centre (Hebrew University of … interfacing between multiple musical disciplines, history, comparative musicology and Jewish music, and a …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… for the Ninth of Av among the Sephardic and Oriental Jewish communities. The identity of the author is unknown, … piyyut ,' [In Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim Beinart on the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the … Melngailis collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics makes public a forgotten … life work. The survey also includes a brief general history of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of …