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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 … York, in a collection of Yiddish and Hebrew songs sung by Holocaust survivors. The setting of the popular American …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… 49 … 58 … 710 … Jewish liturgy evolved in a multidirectional process. … verses from diverse psalms are a widespread phenomenon in Jewish liturgy, the text under discussion is unique in that … of Ferrara (b. Ferrara, 1900-1977) a member of a family of Holocaust survivors , NLI Y 177, recorded September 23, …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to … the language of music, of new evolving aesthetic ideals, of Jewish public emotions, of cross-cultural intersections … and folklore of German Jewry as they existed prior to the Holocaust. As such, material available in state libraries as …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… Beregovski, Evreiskie narodnye napevy bez slov [ Jewish Tunes without Words , 1946]: This research was … 2022) M. Beregovski's, Evreiskie narodnye napevy bez slov [ Jewish Tunes without Words , 1946; 1962], is one of the most … Eastern Europe to Jerusalem in the first decade after the Holocaust. From his testimony, one may learn that this nign …
Moshe Preis
… at the home of Mr. Isaac Pollak, one of the leaders of the Jewish community. Since the Kazinczy Street Synagogue was … and father-in-law in Hungary were all murdered in the holocaust. Chazan Preis stayed for 12 years at the Central … in Brooklyn, NY after which he was hired by the Mosholu Jewish Center in the Bronx. He stayed there until 1968 when …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the recent passing of … Avigdor Herzog (1922-2022), one of the founders of modern Jewish music research and documentation in Israel, and … between the World Wars and the experience of surviving the Holocaust left a deep imprint in Herzog’s life. By late …