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Meir Shimon Geshuri
… 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … as a scholar is still a major gap in the historiography of Jewish music. Born in Myslowitz, Upper Silesia, then part of … was concealed in a massive array of texts and musical practices that until his time, he claimed, were studied in a …
Mordekhai Hershman
… in New York City at Tomashevsky’s Theatre appeared in The Jewish Daily News of February 20, 1920. The enthusiastic … by Tchaikovsky.” Echoes of his appearances dotted the Jewish press that did not spare any superlatives. On … porous line separating secular from the religious musical practices led by great cantors of the time such as Hershman. …
Eduard Birnbaum
… to document the liturgical and para-liturgical musical practices of the major European Jewish communities. To supplement the material that he … collection … Hebrew Union College … Cantor … Collector … Jewish Liturgy … Eduard Birnbaum …
Andre Hajdu
… 5 March 1932 to a characteristically assimilated Hungarian-Jewish family and having survived the Holocaust (a subject … immersed himself in Judaism and started to observe Jewish religious practices. At the same time, he mingled in Paris’ …
Robert Lachmann
… to North Africa , recording and documenting the musical practices of communities in Tripoli , Tunisia , Kabylia, the … and paraliturgical musical traditions of the local Jewish community, material that served as the base for his seminal work, Jewish Cantillation and Song in the Isle of Djerba (1940). …
Musical Life and Traditions of the Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam in the XVIIIth Century
… the existing literary evidence related to the art music practices of the Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam in the 18th century. It … Adler … Musical Life and Traditions of the Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam in the XVIIIth Century … …
The practice of music as an expression of religious philosophy among the East-Ashkenazi Jews
… Special issue on Jewish music Establishing a conceptual framework for the … documents coming from the sacred written sources and from practices observed and opinions gathered over 20 years of …
Judeo-Caribbean Currents
… a multilayered musical narrative. The small but prominent Jewish community of Curaçao had a notorious role in the … with many of the most distinguished local musicians, Jewish and non-Jewish, serving as performers and providing … collection and they represent the more recent musical practices of the unified synagogue, Mikvé Israel-Emanuel. …
Between Israeli and Jewish in Music
… Between Israeli and Jewish in Music Chair: Jehoash Hirshberg Olivier Tourny, … Over the past two decades, the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jewish) Community has immigrated massively to Israel. It is … Another part chose to remain faithful to the ritual practices of its ancestors. That is why, contrary to all …
The Beta Israel Liturgical Music in Israel Today: Between Tradition, Norm and Creativity
… The Fifteenth World Congress Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Session: Between Israeli and Jewish in Music 5.8.09 Chair: Yehoash Hirshberg Summary: … Another part chose to remain faithful to the ritual practices of its ancestors. That is why, contrary to all …