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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 … as elsewhere in the Arab world during the Nahda era, Jewish musicians played an active role in the performance … (Suleiman 2011). Instead of providing new insights into the identity of Ḥazzan Rafoul Tabbach, my conversation with Y …
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, except his name, Binyamin … Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim Beinart on the …
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 … these verses scattered within one psalm is their obvious identity. In fact, they comprise a refrain dividing the song …
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 … and Franz Rosenzweig, who formulated their German-Jewish identity within “the traditional bounds of intellectual …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… Smith, on the other hand, spoke forcefully about his own Jewish religious faith and practices, including his own bar … be considered a Jew? Whose music should be considered a “Jewish” contribution to jazz? Either, both, or neither? … an authentic Jew. Basic racial assumptions surrounding identity complicate the telling of nearly every facet of the …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to … the language of music, of new evolving aesthetic ideals, of Jewish public emotions, of cross-cultural intersections … is often conceived as entailing the erosion of a unique identity and the proposal of urgent actions to re-instate …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… volunteer in Meseret , a center that supported traditional Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and … around an absorption center ( merkaz klita ), where new Jewish immigrants are housed, taught Hebrew, supported in … the complexities of meaning-making and cultural identity among immigrants labeled “ falashas ” (foreigners) …
Jeff Klepper
… Jeff Klepper is an American Jewish Cantor, and one of the pioneers of the … in the HUC campus in New York. He cooperated with a lot of Jewish musicians; His best-known cooperation was with Rabbie … David. Jewhooing the sixties American celebrity & Jewish identity : Sandy Koufax, Lenny Bruce, Bob Dylan, and Barbra …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… , Idelsohn projected into this text his own vision of Jewish history and destiny as well as his take on prophecy … Turgeman A sad rumor arrived that the founder of the Jewish theater in Yiddish, Abraham Goldfaden has died. And … circumstances as well as of the conundrum of modern Jewish identity. The internal politics of the Russian Empire …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… There are scholars of Jewish and Israeli culture whose crucial contributions … the oral testimonies of veterans of the Yishuv (the Jewish community of Palestine prior to the establishment of … national feature. Hacohen focused on uncovering the identity of the concealed authors and sources of the Hebrew …