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Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the recent passing of … National and University Library Born in the small Jewish community in the village of Cuz (Hungarian: Czuz ; today in … scholars who recorded during the British Mandate in Palestine and the early years of Israel, such as Robert …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… Beregovski, Evreiskie narodnye napevy bez slov [ Jewish Tunes without Words , 1946]: This research was … nign 3 in the Zionist Hebrew repertoire consolidating in Palestine since the late nineteenth century, becoming an … documented yet, however it is known to the insiders of this community in Israel (interview with an anonymous hassid by …
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 … was not primarily focused on supporting the Iraqi-Jewish community. The programming was geared first on attracting … operating under the auspices of the pre-1948 British Palestine Broadcasting Service, directed by Ezra Aharon (who …
Moshe Cordova
… ma ka m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our … move to Istanbul, together with many of the Edirne Jewish community, following the devastation of this city during the … choose to emigrate. He moved in 1934 to British Mandate Palestine, settling in the fast-growing Jewish city of Tel …
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 … Polka ” melody became a folk dance among the pioneers in Palestine, usually without a text, although one informant … with ideas propagated by musicians in the Jewish community of Palestine. Critic Menashe Ravina (1942, 13), …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… in 1933, she emigrated to Italy and from there to British Palestine in 1935. Gerson-Kiwi established a long-term … para-liturgical and non-religious music of the non-European Jewish communities whose members relocated to Israel after … document the musical traditions of the Baghdadi Jewish community. The collection includes synagogue liturgy, life …
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 … liturgical hymns who had emigrated from Iraq to the Jewish community of Palestine in 1935. [14] Hakham Raphael Taboush himself, so …
Max Lempel
… Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1900 into an assimilated Jewish family. He studied at the Akademie für Musik und … of choirs and orchestras. In 1925 he immigrated to British Palestine with his wife and three-year-old son. There he … Music . Sources: Hirshberg, Jehoash. Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880-1948: A Social History . Oxford: …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … the tradition of Calcutta (Kolkata), whose Jewish community traces its origins to Baghdadi Jewry. Sephardic … Abileah (1881-1953). A Russian-born Jewish immigrant in Palestine, Abileah was a founding member of the Saint …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… … In 1926, in “New Palestinean [sic] Folk Songs” – one of the earliest Zionist … these songs for his contemporaneous American Jewish community as it is about preserving them for future … many) produced by Harry Coopersmith (such as the “Jewish Community Songster” (1931) and the “Songs of Zion” (1942)). …