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Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… present have generated a rather dense, one-hundred year old literature on the subject. This quest produced speculative … culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its practice at ceremonies of Jewish institutions, synagogues, schools and youth …
Moritz Rosenhaupt
… town of Jesberg near Kassel on March 14, 1841. However the Jewish Encyclopedia (1906) places his birth place in … yet his name does not appear prominently in the scholarly literature concerning the Western Ashkenazi tradition. Those … Professor J. Hess from Heidelberg; and (according to the Jewish Encyclopedia ) the “choir leader Benz,” who taught …
Assaf Shelleg
… Schusterman Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology and Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at … previously taught as the visiting Efroymson Scholar in the Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures … the backdrop of contiguous developments in modern Hebrew literature. Jewish Contiguities won the 2015 Engle Prize …
Haggai Ben-Shammai
… Hebrew University in the departments of Arabic Language and Literature, history of the Islamic countries and Semitic … Judaeo-Arabic Bible exegesis and philosophy, history of Jewish communities in Islamic countries, and Islamic … for Judaeo-Arabic Studies (1997-2013); co-director of the Jewish Studies program at St. Petersburg State University …
Oren Roman
… Researcher of Jewish Ashkenazic culture. Researcher of Yiddish literature, Kreitman Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Foreign … photo was taken from Katz Cebter website. … Researcher of Jewish Ashkenazic culture … Ashkenazi … Oren Roman …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …