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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 …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … as a scholar is still a major gap in the historiography of Jewish music. Born in Myslowitz, Upper Silesia, then part of … yearning to understand music in terms of discrete national identity. In the first part of this article he stresses past …
Aaron Copland
… was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents of Lithuanian Jewish descent. In 1917 he began studying theory and … . These pieces gained wide popularity, strengthening his identity as a composer of uniquely American music. Copland …
Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Friedman
… Deborah Lynn Friedman was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. Friedman’s compositional … themes, educational songs for children, community and identity-building songs for youth, and introspective songs …
Joseph Papernikoff
… which saw modern Yiddish literature as a central part of Jewish identity. Papernikoff was active in the cultural life of the …