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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 … made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long … land [stomp], forced us out of our homes [stomp], but our culture is something they cannot steal. When we stamp our …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… para-liturgical and non-religious music of the non-European Jewish communities whose members relocated to Israel after … the preservation and research of these distinctive Jewish musical repertoires. Her activities led to the … musicology and Jewish music, and a mediator between German culture and scholarship and the nascent Israeli Jewish …
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 … A lengthy introduction provides ample historical and musical contexts. Karnes did not spare any effort in trying … The introduction offers English readers a survey of Jewish culture in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, …
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 …
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 … and the Worms (1980 [1976]) — which explores popular culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the eyes of a … to Mahler, according to Tesler-Mabé, is not only a musical and personal issue. Mahler, he argues, deeply …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked … scholar of music in the Islamic world and of the Jewish musical traditions within it. Warkov wanted to study … and marginalized by mainstream (Western-oriented) Israeli culture. Only one Israeli institution— the Israeli Broadcast …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of … toward homogenization under a burgeoning Israeli national culture, the Judeo-Spanish songs of Alicia’s youth were not … Jewish communities of North Morocco, including their rich musical lore. It has truly been an honor to study the life …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… found themselves living in lands where Arab and Persian cultures and languages predominated. Jews of these lands … making was an area of cultural expression in which the Jewish-Muslim encounter was intense. Shared Muslim-Jewish [musical] spaces (regardless of ethnicities) have become the …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library … Institute’s library [i.e. Institute for Jewish Proletarian Culture], the offhand assertion that it had ‘never been … of the collection, including, when available, the musical incipits. A rather large team of librarians, experts …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to … German music as a “universal” language against which other musical nationalisms in Europe defined themselves. … a curiosity of European music. Also studying this musical culture against the backdrop of more general tendencies in …