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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 … Temples.” This volume in particular fit into the post-Holocaust atmosphere of Israel’s early years, in which the …
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 … Some of these materials miraculously survived the Holocaust. Adler eventually dedicated his dissertation to …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the … and died on April 30, 2020. He came, as do many Moroccan Jewish performing artists and composers, from a family of … Mwijo adamantly refused to play in Germany because of the Holocaust – even after an offer of 10,00 Deutschmarks (an …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… of Niggun ‘Akedah , transcribed between 1840 and the Holocaust period, and two recent audio recordings. The … Yiẓḥak , or ‘Akedah ) has assumed an important function in Jewish religion and culture since Antiquity. This renowned narrative describes how the first Jewish family (Abraham, Sarah and Isaac) came close to …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… Adler has shown in a lifetime of work, the history of Jewish music is really a set of complex, interlocking … set of source materials to create a portrait of a given Jewish community and time in terms of its musical life. One … was producing the only surviving footage of spontaneous pre-Holocaust folk choreography. In the present brief …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… destructive in scale, the fire came as a great blow to the Jewish community living in Saloniki at the time. The fire … tens of thousands of Jews homeless and consumed most of the Jewish neighborhood in the old city, including areas of … community would eventually be eclipsed by that of the Holocaust, the fire played a catalytic role in ending an era …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its practice at ceremonies of Jewish institutions, synagogues, schools and youth … in Ladino and Turkish. [57] One Song, Many Memories The Holocaust is a powerful screen that in one way or another …
Karev Yom
… of the earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after … movement to achieve independence in the aftermath of the Holocaust (of which he luckily escaped), tainted him as a … sound and the packaging of Bikel’s album catered to this Jewish market and its imagination of the new Israel. The …
And Now We're All Brothers: Singing In Yiddish In Contemporary North America
… past traditions and present concerns, most particularly the Holocaust and the construction of Jewish identities through musical performances. … 1 … 33942 …
Famous Persons
… Irgun yotsʾe Sarnaḳi be-Yiśraʾel … … 1968 … Polish Jewry … Jewish Holocaust … Ashkenazi … Sharga Zeyerman … Dov Shuval … …