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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 … return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical performance of the three verses. The precious Leo …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… from archives around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which … for Performing Arts) conducted by Roumen Tsonev in the CD Jewish Songs from Bulgaria . The song itself starts at … York: Sepher-Hermon Press, 1987. Bunis, David. Voices from Jewish Salonika: Selections from the Judezmo Satirical …
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 … in Unger’s history: Unger decided to “devote his life to music making” after hearing Mahler’s Lied von der Erde ; he …
Dan Deutsch
… Deutsch is currently an Azrieli postdoctoral fellow in the Musicology Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. … Toronto Faculty of Music and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. His dissertation, Music as “Minor … against the backdrop of his social status as part of a Jewish minority. In his current research, he expands the …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … 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 …
David Conway
… Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College, and was a Polonsky Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies in 2019-20. His publications include Jewry in Music: Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to …
Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… here Prof. Seroussi offers a master class on contemporary Jewish music scholarship and methodology. … Hanukkah … Chanukkah …
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 … patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. Purim, Purim Lanu (Ladino …
Moshe Cordova
… ma ka m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … was the move to Istanbul, together with many of the Edirne Jewish community, following the devastation of this city …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked … an eminent scholar of music in the Islamic world and of the Jewish musical traditions within it. Warkov wanted to study …