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Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… The collection of historical Jewish field recordings at the Vernadsky National Library of … the earliest surviving specimens of Middle Eastern Jewish musical traditions. By nature of the technological … agent of the Society for Jewish [original says “Hebrew”] Culture and Ethnography. He was sent to our city on behalf …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… , Judith R. Cohen and Risto Pekka Pennanen In 2008 the Jewish Music Research Centre released a 4-CD package … public interest in the role commercial recordings had on musical traditions from the early twentieth century, that … Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture, 2006) … Molho, Michael 1960 >>> Literatura …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… , Idelsohn projected into this text his own vision of Jewish history and destiny as well as his take on prophecy … his own Gesamtkunstwerk, ‘Yiftah’, as ‘hizzayon negini’ (musical play). Modern Hebrew writers embraced the biblical … his own self-understanding as a would-be prophet of Hebrew culture. According to Idelsohn, something sparked in the …
Naomi Bahat-Ratzon
… Researcher focusing on traditional and folk dance of various cultures, among them the Druze community in the villages of the Golan Heights, and the Jewish communities of Yemen, to which she dedicated the … … Dance … Ethnomusicologist … Ethnomusicology … Jewish musical tradition … Oral tradition … Yemen Jewery … Jewish …
Isaac Levy
… Isaac Levy was born in Manisa near Izmir to a Sephardic Jewish family. At the age of three, he moved with his family … and piyyutim written by poets of the golden age of Jewish culture in Spain, such as Rabbi Yehudah Halevi, Rabbi … of Judaeo-Spanish music who continues this musical tradition. He died in Jerusalem in 1977. Isaac Levy …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … far beyond this constricting narrative to recover Jewish culture, economics, politics, and society. Yet something of … Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern Jewish musical research. Idelsohn’s life traversed several …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one … sounded beautiful to me, loved singing and had a very good musical memory, excellent for remembering melodies that he … variant. Although, Libau was a modern city with German culture, my father picked for me a Lithuanian teacher in a …
Mapping of German Liturgical Music
… The Jewish Music Research Centre is proud to present a map of … sources of liturgical music form the German-speaking Jewish world. This map derives from the online data base … out in the framework of the project "German-Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections" funded by the German-Israeli …
Haim Louk
… at Em Habanim school in Casablanca, which integrated Jewish religious studies with general education, including … charismatic teacher who greatly influenced Louk's musical path. At the age of 10, Louk met Rabbi David … Israeli musicians. In 2011, he was awarded the Ministry of Culture's Prize for Music in recognition of his …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… Childhood and early musical career Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur (يوسف زعرور) was born … This generational tension between well-to-do Baghdadi Jewish families and their youngsters who loved music and … vital role Jews played in shaping the modern Iraqi musical culture. Not surprisingly, al-Ghazali married the great …