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Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… there are many), not showing much in the way of original research, and full of phrases (such as “in all likelihood’’, … early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … Song”. For a start, it represents two of the four genres (Jewish, Irish, Italian, and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked … Taqsim , released in the framework of the Jewish Music Research Centre’s Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… dedicated to the life and work of cellist, composer, researcher and pedagogue Joachim-Yehoyachin Stutschewsky … we are glad to launch the sixth volume in the Contemporary Jewish Music series, 13 Jewish Folk Tunes, an online …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of … this day, three decades after it started. The Jewish Music Research Centre (JMRC) is one of the institutions that has invested …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … were lost forever during the Nazi era and the Shoah. As a research strategy, however, this “decline” is often …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… volunteer in Meseret , a center that supported traditional Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and music. The neighborhood had grown around an absorption … university was supportive of my wish to conduct independent research among the Beta Israel community in Israel. In 1989, …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… Beregovski, Evreiskie narodnye napevy bez slov [ Jewish Tunes without Words , 1946]: This research was supported by a grant from the Ministry of … of its contents in the wider context of Hasidic music research is a desideratum. The present essay, focusing …
Oratorio Ester - The salvation of Israel by Esther (Video)
… The salvation of Israel by Esther by Cristiano G. Lidarti (music) and Rabbi Jacob Raphael Saraval (libretto). Based on … Produced by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Jewish Music Research Centre, Tel-Ad Jerusalem Studios. Recorded in …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the recent passing of ethnomusicologist …