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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
… para-liturgical and non-religious music of the non-European Jewish communities whose members relocated to Israel after … to the preservation and research of these distinctive Jewish musical repertoires. Her activities led to the … 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 …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Forgotten Conductor: Heinz Unger and His Search for Jewish Meaning, 1895−1965 . Toronto: University of Toronto … aim at demonstrating how individuals altered the course of history (“made history”) and how they were affected by it. … Forgotten Conductor: Heinz Unger and His Search for Jewish Meaning , 1895−1965 seems to question this …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… Song”. For a start, it represents two of the four genres (Jewish, Irish, Italian, and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take … heart of what became Berlin’s true genius and of what was Jewish – or at least ‘Jew-ish’ – about Berlin’s life and … November 25, 2020. https://robertgreenbergmusic.com/music-history-monday-the-melody-lingers-on-irving-berlin/ Hamm, …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked … an eminent scholar of music in the Islamic world and of the Jewish musical traditions within it. Warkov wanted to study … who maintained a living connection to the tradition. History, however, proved her wrong. Starting in the 1990s, …