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Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent passing of … and died on April 30, 2020. He came, as do many Moroccan Jewish performing artists and composers, from a family of …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… in sections according to the different Turkish makam s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem … Basin ve Yayin, Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Culture Research Center, 2009. (Book, 5 CDs and DVD) The piyyut … connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common source, … of historical interest. Even the “father” of Jewish music research, Abraham Z. Idelsohn , did not dedicate more than a …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … of the Lebanese Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research (AMAR). Located in the little mountain village … made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long …
Stefanie Mockert
… Mockert, who graduated in Musicology from Humboldt University, Berlin, is a researcher at the Hebrew University's Jewish Music Research Centré. Her studies focus on the …
Clara Wenz
… Clara Wenz is an ethnomusicologist specializing in Middle Eastern music, music and … between Europe and the Middle East. Her current research project chronicles the present and past lives of a Syrian-Jewish musical record which was released by the Lebanese …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new … in Hebrew) for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, a fast day in Jewish tradition marking the breach of Jerusalem’s … of our poem, Shlomo Ibn Gabirol (ca. 1020-1058). Recent research has shown that these historical certainties have to …
Nili Belkind
… Dr. Nili Belkind is an ethnomusicologist whose specialty areas include the Middle East … of her dissertation (Columbia University). In her current research project, Nili is exploring cultural intimacy, as … the conflict and binary perceptions of Arab/Palestinian and Jewish/Israeli. Nili’s M.A. thesis focused on the musics of …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… “From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” is a joint … Theater und Medien Hannover, Germany) and the Jewish Music Research Centre (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel). It …
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, … such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … Gerson Kiwi, whose life and work are the subject of a major research project of the JMRC, met Nehemiah Hocha in …