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The Idelsohn Project
… Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in the world is “Hava Nagila” (“Come, let us … Hassidic niggun) Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, was a European-born Jewish musician who insisted that music and affect were … to be taught uncritically as the history of Jewish music in schools, seminaries, synagogues, and universities derives …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … and saints, or Leidensgeschichte and Geistesgeschichte . Jewish Studies in this formulation consisted of the … School. He also taught in the upper classes of the schools. Many celebrations were held in Eretz Yisrael and …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one … the special favor of the Duke who allowed her, as the only Jewish pupil, to visit his German primary school. All her … time a fight between the Hebraists and the “Hilfsverein” schools in Palestine was going on. I, though an employee of …
Enrico Fink
… and coordinators of the Online Thesaurus of Italian Jewish Music, international project devoted to the study of Italian Jewish musical repertoires. As a musician, he has devoted … Europe, North and South America, in theatres as well as in schools and universities, synagogues and Jewish centers, as …
Haim Louk
… at Em Habanim school in Casablanca, which integrated Jewish religious studies with general education, including … The curriculum encompassed Talmudic studies, piyyutim (Jewish liturgical poetry), traditional chanting of Psalms, … of Morocco, was then the director of the Otzar HaTorah schools in Morocco. In 1964, following the birth of his …