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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 … of the National Library of Israel (= Ms. 24 of the Jewish Community of Vienna Library), dated before the year 1465, …
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 … document the musical traditions of the Baghdadi Jewish community. The collection includes synagogue liturgy, life …
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, … Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim Beinart on the … occasion; source, Hit h adshut: Journal of the Kurdish Community in Israel 2 [1975]). He became well versed in 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 … with ideas propagated by musicians in the Jewish community of Palestine. Critic Menashe Ravina (1942, 13), …
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 … in each repetition of this pledge of the praying voice (the community of Israel). He accomplished that by making each …
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 … Forgotten Conductor: Heinz Unger and His Search for Jewish Meaning , 1895−1965 seems to question this … position and was therefore impelled to conduct small community orchestras and later on a provisional orchestra …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… serve as hazzan (cantor) of the new, flourishing Portuguese Jewish community. In 1628, he published in his adopted city a … early dissemination in Western Sephardic and North African Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew …
Moshe Cordova
… ma ka m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our … was the move to Istanbul, together with many of the Edirne Jewish community, following the devastation of this city during the …
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 … was not primarily focused on supporting the Iraqi-Jewish community. The programming was geared first on attracting …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… of sorts, alongside Hankus Netsky’s Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth Century Jewish Philadelphia (2015) and Walter Zev Feldman’s Klezmer: … resource—he offers background on the general history of Jewish-interest instrumental records in the early twentieth …