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Inventing Jewish Music
… It was 1848, and the music of central Europe's Jewish communities was in a state of chaos. In the cities, … sense of isolation and abandonment. The very nature of Jewish identity was being questioned from within Jewish … a symbol of Jewish identity and an embodiment of Jewish community through performance, seemed as if it was falling …
Music in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah in Northern Africa
… More than any other Jewish group, the Northern African community has adopted the book of the Zohar as a canonical … differs from those prevalent in other parts of the Jewish world; its most characteristic feature is the …
Le monument juif d'epoque romane de Rouen: Ce que nous enseignent les graffiti
… a donné lieu à d'intenses controverses. … 23457 … Jewish History … Jewish community … Archeology … Excavation … Monuments … Le …
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 type of …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… 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 … song describing the deportation of the Viennese Jewish community in 1670 (Turniansky 1989; Steinschneider …
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 … artists, Mwijo remained systematically connected to his community, performing almost exclusively at family and …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… 1702 by Moshe Bekhar Hacohen, the hazzan of the Levantine community of Venice in the 18th century, originating from … connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s study of our song …
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 … (such as Lidarti) composed on behalf of the Portuguese community in the late Baroque style. It attests to the …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… 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 … liturgical hymns who had emigrated from Iraq to the Jewish community of Palestine in 1935. [14] Hakham Raphael Taboush …
Stefanie Mockert
… Berlin, is a researcher at the Hebrew University's Jewish Music Research Centré. Her studies focus on the … the joined research projects with the European Center for Jewish Music, Hanover: “ From Berlin to Jerusalem and back - … which framework she contributed a study on the early modern community in Munich “Musical Transformation of Southern …