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Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s Legacy
… Idelsohn’s Legacy: Eighty Years after the Publication of Jewish Music in its Historical Development The year 2009 … the publication of Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s foundational book Jewish Music in its Historical Development, which in many … of Idelsohn’s aesthetic vision of Israeli musical culture during his years in the yishuv and afterward. Noah …
Contemporary American Jewish Music
… Contemporary American Jewish Music Chair: Ruth HaCohen Joel E. Rubin, Department … Jew means in this time.” Abigail Wood, Joe Loss Lecturer in Jewish Music, Department of Music, SOAS, University of … non-Jews alike, the idea of a thriving secular Yiddish song culture seems absurd. Most scholarly discussions suggest …
Bloch: Known and Unknown
… relationship to Wagner, in that his expression of the ‘Jewish soul’ and use of Jewish traditional elements, both refutes Wagner’s denial of … a wider phenomenon of negotiation of identities and cultures. Dalia Atlas, Technion, Haifa, Head of The Ernest …
The Jewish Bloch
… On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of his Death The Jewish Bloch Chair: Malcom Miller Zecharia Plavin, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance Bloch's Jewish-Hebrew musical narrative of Jewish Cycle and the late … generated 'nation-portraits' in view of the music-cum-culture-oriented commentators. Such a cultural discourse …
Gesture, Dance and Melody in Traditional Ashkenazi Culture
… The Fifteenth World Congress Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Session: Ashkenazi traditions: the … European, Germanic tradition based on set figures, and a Jewish tradition based on expressive gesture. This paper … … Gesture, Dance and Melody in Traditional Ashkenazi Culture …
In Which Direction Do Hebrews Play Music?: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Musical Aesthetics of Zionism
… The Fifteenth World Congress Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Special panel (Plenary of … Languages and Arts Section) In collaboration with the Jewish Music Forum, USA Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s … history of cultural Zionism and the formation of Israeli culture. Scholars of Hebrew literature have focused …
The Father of Jewish Musicology and the Natives: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Yemenites
… The Fifteenth World Congress Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Special panel (Plenary of … Languages and Arts Section) In collaboration with the Jewish Music Forum, USA Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s … capturing what he thought was the entirety of this exotic culture. This was no doubt a result of ardent national …
Avraham Soltes
… many cultural and educational activities that interpreted Jewish art, music, and literature. He was chairman of the National Jewish Music Council from 1963 to 1969 and a member of the … after week, he interwove the threads of Israeli history and culture with its musical heritage and that of Judaism at …
Ramon Tasat
… including opera and more, but he mainly sings from the rich culture of the Sephardic Jews. He is the cantor of Shirat Hanefesh (Song of the Soul), an emerging Jewish congregation in southern Montgomery County, MD. He is … also the president of Shalshelet: The Foundation for New Jewish Liturgical Music. (The picture was taken from Tasat's …
Viktor Ullmann
… individual musicians were preserved, shedding light on the culture and participants of the musical life in Terezín. … them to H.G. Adler after the war. Ullmann’s interest in Jewish themes peaked for the first time in Terezín, …