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The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… “From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” is a … the preservation and research of these distinctive Jewish musical repertoires. Her activities led to the … insight into the transfer of the German-Jewish educational tradition to Palestine / Israel. They also highlight the …
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, … and other social dislocations on Jewish liturgical traditions. Before addressing the questions raised by the …
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 … in this volume belong to a well-documented Jewish music tradition. Moreover, Karnes’s argument that “traces of the …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… 49 … 58 … Jewish liturgy evolved in a multidirectional process. … crystallized into several minhagim (“customs” or “traditions”) once the printing press started to produce … 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 repertoires of traditional music have evolved in the century or more since … 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 … who formulated their German-Jewish identity within “the traditional bounds of intellectual history.” Unger, he … to Mahler, according to Tesler-Mabé, is not only a musical and personal issue. Mahler, he argues, deeply …
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 … Catholic and brought up his children in a blandly Christian tradition. A clear hint is that virtually all his close …
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 … salvation by Esther and Mordecai, stressing the popular joy traditionally expressed on Purim for this miraculous turn of … 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 … chose to remain in the Turkish Republic and maintain the tradition in situ, within a venerable Jewish community. In …
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 processes of …