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Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Netsky’s Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth Century Jewish Philadelphia (2015) and Walter Zev Feldman’s Klezmer: … resource—he offers background on the general history of Jewish-interest instrumental records in the early twentieth … available materials for determining the period’s musical practices, he forges ahead. And so Rubin enters a precarious …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… Smith, on the other hand, spoke forcefully about his own Jewish religious faith and practices, including his own bar mitzvah at age thirteen. … be considered a Jew? Whose music should be considered a “Jewish” contribution to jazz? Either, both, or neither? …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to … early 19 th century up to World War II, investigating these practices within a broad European cultural context. The … the language of music, of new evolving aesthetic ideals, of Jewish public emotions, of cross-cultural intersections …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… volunteer in Meseret , a center that supported traditional Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and … around an absorption center ( merkaz klita ), where new Jewish immigrants are housed, taught Hebrew, supported in … History (1986) situated Falasha liturgy and religious practices in a broader Ethiopian and Christian context …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… the article “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the … analyzed in detail in that article. Research of Moroccan Jewish religious music has been largely, if not exclusively, … from Oudja, Tlemcen and Wahran. Among these paraliturgical practices, the repertoire of the early morning winter vigils …
Shefa Gold
… is a Rabbi, composer, and spiritual leader in the liberal Jewish denominations in the USA. She was ordained as a Rabbi … connection to Buddhism and wanted to bring some of its practices to Judaism. Gold combined the old practice of … Hebrew chanting at Kol Zimra, a formal training program in Jewish chant. She is also a leader and a teacher at ALEPH …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… The collection of historical Jewish field recordings at the Vernadsky National Library of … cycle events recorded in 1913 in Ottoman Palestine from Jewish singers belonging to Middle Eastern communities … of these fragments. Lurie’s recordings reflect musical practices of Jews from the Ottoman provinces of Greater …
El Jiwneh Hagalil (Lied der galilaischen Arbeiter) – God will Build the Galilee (Galilee Worker’s Song)
… ha-galil would fill an entire chapter in the history of the Jewish song (Seroussi 2010). Different tunes, variations of the lyrics, arrangements and performance-practices reshaped its meanings and contexts of performance … offers a contrasting musical symbol signifying the modern Jewish national rebirth colored in the dorian mode. The …
A Selection of Judeo-Spanish Songs
… of few songs in Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) following the practices of several of his predecessors and contemporaries, …
‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… around the mid-sixteenth century from the circles of Jewish mystics of Safed and spready rapidly throughout the Jewish world, especially to Italy. One key figure in these … … [7] On these variants and on the diverse kabbalistic practices related to Qabbalat Shabbat and Mordecai Dato’s …