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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? … and Shaw perhaps only marginally so. Later in his life Smith would serve as cantor in a Black Jewish synagogue …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of Moroccan Jewish folk singer Alicia (Benassayag) Bendayan on Friday, … her 99th birthday on June 29. Throughout Alicia’s long life, she treasured within her memory the Judeo-Spanish …
Arabs - Jews - Music
… making was one area of cultural expression in which the Jewish-Arab encounter was intense. Shared musical spaces … countries, the sociocultural milieus in which they came to life and encounters between Arab and Jewish musicians from Morocco to Iraq. The project also …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library … has attracted the attention of musicians and scholars of Jewish music ever since they resurfaced in the aftermath of … Director of the Archive of Folk Song at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress, about his visit to …
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 … this reassessment, allowing for new insights into Jewish life in Central Europe in the last centuries, as they have …
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 … immigrated to Israel, which was becoming a new center of life for the Ethiopian Jewish community. The oftentimes …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… Beregovski, Evreiskie narodnye napevy bez slov [ Jewish Tunes without Words , 1946]: This research was … 2022) M. Beregovski's, Evreiskie narodnye napevy bez slov [ Jewish Tunes without Words , 1946; 1962], is one of the most … prepared for publication during the last years of his life but did not live to see it published. It was edited and …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… the article “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the … analyzed in detail in that article. Research of Moroccan Jewish religious music has been largely, if not exclusively, … le-hayyim tovim ul-shalom” (“A New Moon for blessing, good life and peace”). This verse echoes in its wording the …
Pete Sokolow
… roots in the Catskills span older and newer generations of Jewish musicians. Sokolow has played with many major figures … the music of Dave Tarras . Biography from The American Folklife Center . Interviews with Pete Sokolow: Peter … Multiple languages. By Yiddish Book Center: Regenerating Jewish Culture. Pete Sokolow discussed and demonstrated the …
Leó Weiner
… Professor, but he continued to teach until the end of his life. He died in Budapest. Among Weiner's notable … recordings and a correspondence with the World Center for Jewish Music in Palestine. Scores by Leó Weiner at the … agendas In Hungarian: Journal of the Society of Hungarian Jewish Culture IX (1993): 40- 60. … Hungarian music …