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Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the … and died on April 30, 2020. He came, as do many Moroccan Jewish performing artists and composers, from a family of … version of Elmediouni’s hit “ Ana Nahibak ”) or his lifetime partner on the stage, the ‘oud player Nino Bitton, …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… on the biblical and post-biblical legends pertaining to his life, including the Exodus from Egypt, the receiving of the … connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s …
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 … and Torah scholar from Aleppo. [4] Over the course of his life, he, who was blind and relied on a scribe to record his …
Ben-Zion (Yisrael Noach) Kapov-Kagan
… whose name he would retain for the remainder of his life. In the United States, he served as hazzan at the Ocean Parkway Jewish Center in New York, and subsequently at the Concourse … He also served for a period of time as president of the Jewish Ministers and Cantors Association. Kapov-Kagan was …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… para-liturgical and non-religious music of the non-European Jewish communities whose members relocated to Israel after … to the preservation and research of these distinctive Jewish musical repertoires. Her activities led to the … of Israel. Beyond her local foci of research and public life concerns in Israel, Gerson-Kiwi is a very significant …
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, … Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim Beinart on the … traditions in Israel. Professor Edith Gerson Kiwi, whose life and work are the subject of a major research project of …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the … Melngailis collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics makes public a forgotten … disclosing Karnes’s intimate familiarity with Melngailis’s life work. The survey also includes a brief general history …
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 … (5). And thus, it would seem that this chronicle of Unger’s life promulgates a non-identarian perception of Jewishness …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… Song”. For a start, it represents two of the four genres (Jewish, Irish, Italian, and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take … heart of what became Berlin’s true genius and of what was Jewish – or at least ‘Jew-ish’ – about Berlin’s life and achievements. Berlin transcended Abie by realizing …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… serve as hazzan (cantor) of the new, flourishing Portuguese Jewish community. In 1628, he published in his adopted city … early dissemination in Western Sephardic and North African Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew … Sephardic-American artist. Jagoda, slightly later in her life, became one of the most remarkable folk performers of …