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The Idelsohn Project
… Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in the world is “Hava Nagila” (“Come, let us … Hassidic niggun) Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, was a European-born Jewish musician who insisted that music and affect were … as a path-breaking scholar of Jewish music and liturgy who influenced multiple generations of Jewish and Israeli …
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 … content is serious. Important and elevated [content] that influences the course of a person’s spirit as a person! …
Symphony Overture in G (1732)
… Under the influence of the kabbalistic ideas developed in Safed during … century night vigils (tiqqunim) were organized at first in Jewish communities in Italy and other Mediterranean … attained considerable proportions in the Casale Monferrato Jewish Ashkenazi community in the 1730's. The earliest …
Zoock (Volkstanz) – Zhok (Folk dance)
… the listener back to the celebrative moments of traditional Jewish life. Stutschewsky wrote about this genre in his book … although the musical essence for these pieces were indeed influenced by the klezmers’ playing and lost some of their … see example in Stutschewsky 1959: 100. … Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes … Ashkenazim … Cello - Violoncello … Folk …
Hallelu et adonay kol goyim (2)
… by Aguilar and De Sola ( 1857: 37, no. 39 ). The Italian influence on the Western Sephardi liturgy, especially the …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … and saints, or Leidensgeschichte and Geistesgeschichte . Jewish Studies in this formulation consisted of the … girl replying to them in Hebrew. They were the ones who influenced us to speak in Hebrew and only in Hebrew in our …
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 … the special favor of the Duke who allowed her, as the only Jewish pupil, to visit his German primary school. All her … me music theory and also the beginning of harmony. He also influenced me to become acquainted with the classical music …
James Levy
… Congregación Israelita Latina of Buenos Aires in 1891 ( The Jewish Presence in Latin America ). He also composed … British, Spanish-Portuguese, Moroccan and even Argentinian influences. James dedicated this work to the memory of his …
Sara Levi-Tanai
… to dance and theater in Israel. Her works, deeply rooted in Jewish and Yemenite traditions, significantly shaped … Levi-Tanai was born in Jerusalem to a family of Yemenite Jewish immigrants. Her parents emigrated from Yemen as part … performance, was considered modern and innovative. Her influence extended beyond Israel's borders. Inbal Dance …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… very short-lived journal initiated by the World Center for Jewish Music in Palestine. Milhaud, who was a close … religion and there were cases of Gauls becoming Jewish converts. These Jews remained in Provence and … memorial of this sublime sacred music. I have been greatly influenced by the character of this liturgy and I have …