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Between Israeli and Jewish in Music
… Between Israeli and Jewish in Music Chair: Jehoash Hirshberg Olivier Tourny, CNRS, … synagogues. Another part chose to remain faithful to the ritual practices of its ancestors. That is why, contrary to …
“Beyond All This Hides a Great Happiness”: Israeliness and Jewishness in the work of Mark Kopitman
… The Fifteenth World Congress Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Session: Between Israeli and Jewish in Music 5.8.09 Chair: Yehoash Hirshberg Summary: Two cantatas … constant questioning is an integral part of the Jewish spiritual tradition. I believe it is not accidental that …
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: Over the past … synagogues. Another part chose to remain faithful to the ritual practices of its ancestors. That is why, contrary to …
Avraham Soltes
… life: Judica; the struggle in Palestine to forge an Israel; Music, in all shapes and forms. Even as a rabbinical student … From 1977 until his death Soltes had been the spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Chavairuth of Bergen … many cultural and educational activities that interpreted Jewish art, music, and literature. He was chairman of the …
Mordechai Yardeni (Motl Sherman)
… now Ukraine). His father, Chaim Sherman, was a shochet (a ritual slaughterer), a baal-tefila (cantor), and a teacher … yeshiva Mishkan Israel. Later he enrolled in The School of Music and Drama. As a writer, Sherman made his debut writing … singer, with a repertoire of 'Israelian' songs and Jewish liturgy. From 1940 he began to accept offers from …
Sigmund Schlesinger
… and choirmasters who attempted to create and adapt music to suit the new ritual and format of American Reform congregations — before … recognized the need of an appropriate musical setting for Jewish congregational services and composed complete musical …
Mordekhai Seter
… three choirs and orchestra depicting the redemption of the Jewish people. This oratorio has been considered since its … occasions, was chosen to conclude the first Israeli Music Celebration (September 1998; an annual festival … works such as the stormy Opposites Unified (1984), the spiritual Nokhehut ( Presence , 1986), and Nigudim ( …
Eliezer S. Abinun
… in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1912. He began his studies at the Jewish seminary in Sarajevo, where his father, though not a … genius. To him, they were a source of inspiration and spiritual happiness. Equally at ease with his religion and his … He was an acknowledged authority on both the liturgical music and the secular Romancero tradition of the Sephardim. …
Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Friedman
… Deborah Lynn Friedman was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … songs for youth, and introspective songs meant for spiritual healing. Photo courtesy of the Milken Archive of …
Pnina Salzman
… But I fancy an innate sensibility and vitality of musical mind and feeling will preserve her from all that.” ( … Since 1969, she taught at the Samuel Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University, where she became a professor … Salzman: “Seter reaches the great truth, pure spirituality. His music has no body, only soul and thought. I …