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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 … limited number of musicians that have been addressed in the literature on German synagogue music, particularly the …
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 … is inaccurate. Indeed, there is a considerable body of literature regarding these collections, much of it published …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Netsky’s Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth Century Jewish Philadelphia (2015) and Walter Zev Feldman’s Klezmer: … book mainly traverses a list-like roadmap of the secondary literature, presenting a couple of paragraphs each on … resource—he offers background on the general history of Jewish-interest instrumental records in the early twentieth …
Dan Deutsch
… Toronto Faculty of Music and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. His dissertation, Music as “Minor Literature”: Form and Syntax in Mahler’s Das Lied von der … against the backdrop of his social status as part of a Jewish minority. In his current research, he expands 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 … a peculiar feature discussed widely in the scholarly literature about this Psalm. Interestingly, a fourth verse …
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 … a complete Hebrew publication devoted to Lithuanian folk literature appeared (Yardeni-Zakheim 1928). This volume …
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 … sign of the jumping gazelle, a prominent symbol in Arabic literature which stood in contrast to the dog displayed on …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… to the writer and scholar of Spanish and Sephardic literature, Paloma Díaz Mas. Maftirim, “Adonay hu elohenu” … connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness through music challenged the normative status of … literatur un prese (Biographical Dictionary of Yiddish Literature and Press) Edelstadt’s definitive authorship of …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Yiẓḥak , or ‘Akedah ) has assumed an important function in Jewish religion and culture since Antiquity. This renowned narrative describes how the first Jewish family (Abraham, Sarah and Isaac) came close to … and omitting the character of Sarah altogether. Midrashic literature elaborates on the narrative at length, and it is …