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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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 “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, … that musical diversity is the natural state of Jewish culture. Lidarti’s setting was a case exemplifying this …
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 … Gözlem Gazetcilik Basin ve Yayin, Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Culture Research Center, 2009. (Book, 5 CDs and DVD) The … connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the … was, above all, a “hidden treasure” within the Israeli musical scene. Unlike most of his contemporary Moroccan … ethos of the Zionist movement and the Israeli culture that emerged from it. Even when he recorded in …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… great significance of the ‘Akedah narrative in Ashkenazi culture, as expressed through the poems that were sung to … Yiẓḥak , or ‘Akedah ) has assumed an important function in Jewish religion and culture since Antiquity. This renowned … century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records …
The Music of Kurdistan Jews - a Synopsis of their Musical Styles
… including a strong tendency towards linguistic as well as musical dialect formation. It is only natural that the … in that it is to a considerable extent connected with Jewish history of the biblical period. … 9480 … Kurdistan … Kurdistan Jews … Jews … Kurds … Culture … Musical traditions … Jewish cultural groups … …