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Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World
… made brides weep and guests dance at weddings throughout Jewish eastern Europe before the culture was destroyed in … musics based on an assumed connection with a group identity and links to a tradition? How do economics, …
Tenement Songs: the Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants
… who, in finding and creating an expressive medium for self-identity, helped shape and give life to American popular … … Mark Slobin … Tenement Songs: the Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants …
The Fate of Two Jewish Operas in the Soviet Union during the 1920's and 1930's
… … … 1995 … Music … Opera … Art Music … Art … Nationalism … Identity … Twentieth (20th) Century … Russia … USSR … … … Joachim Braun … Vladimir Karbusicky … The Fate of Two Jewish Operas in the Soviet Union during the 1920's and …
The Jewish service in Communist Hungary – a personal journey
… Summarizes the problems that hindered the practice of Jewish ritual music in Hungary during the Communist period. The music for the traditional Jewish service is described, as are the characteristics that … before and after World War II. The problem of Jewish identity as an ethnicity in Hungary, from the decades before …
Un’italianità cantata L'identità nazionale nei canti ebraici italiani [Singing Italian-ness. National Identity in Jewish Italian Music]
… nei canti ebraici italiani [Singing Italian-ness. National Identity in Jewish Italian Music] …
Nuba of Gold and Light - Nuba d'or et de la lumiere
… musical journey that touches upon the roots of her identity. The film reveals how the nuba was shaped by … Berber, Arab, Andalusian, and later, Christian and Jewish liturgical music in Spain. She documents performances …
The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire
… 'No image of prerevolutionary Russian Jewish life is more iconic than the fiddler on the roof. But in the half century before 1917, Jewish musicians were actually descending from their shtetl … why did Russian music become the gateway to modern Jewish identity? Drawing on previously unavailable archives, this …
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 … source of contemporary Israeli search for rejuvenated self-identity. Bloch's achievement lies in his fusion of various …
Judeo-Spanish Traditions in Transition
… Program) Chair: Karen Gerson Sarhon Susana Weich-Shahak, Jewish Music Research Centre, Hebrew University of Jerusalem … their access to the internet, and there is a state-run Jewish museum in Belmonte. As they interact much more with … done for millennia and also, to some extent, using them as identity markers in the presence of Jewish tourists. On the …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish communities. It consists of gatherings that occur … which up to then had been predominant in the Sephardi Jewish liturgy and piyyut singing in the Middle East, went … including important rabbinical figures from Aleppo. The identity of some of the authors is unknown. In alphabetical …