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Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… number of different composers, such as the prominent Iraqi-Jewish musician Salah al-Kuwaity (1908-1986), and in some … and textual adaptations catering to different ethnic groups, religions, families, and individuals sharing a … Tassa … Piyyut … Baghdadi … Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong … …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one … they are renegades or assimilants, and detest all Jewish cultural values. 4) The few composers who remained within … all of the synagogue music from each of the exisitng ethnic groups, for instance, the Yemenites, Babylonians, Persians, …
Enrico Fink
… and coordinators of the Online Thesaurus of Italian Jewish Music, international project devoted to the study of … he has devoted himself to new interpretations of the Jewish cultural tradition, finding a path between "radical" and … to contemporary, participating in and leading major groups and orchestras, but also giving classes, workshops, …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… distancing of post- Holocaust congregations from the cultural contexts in which Hasidic music originally emerged. … constant migrations, along with marriages between the two groups, generated an awareness of the stylistic differences, … as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is …
Yaakov Huri
… as rabbi. Huri belonged to the Zionist sector of the Jewish community. This sector, unlike the yeshivah students … was the Minhat Yehuda Synagogue, a spiritual and cultural center of the “Babylonian” (“bavlim” is how Iraqi … as cantor not only by Babylonian Jews, but by other ethnic groups in Jerusalem, Greeks, Persians, Kurds and more. For …