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Moshe Cordova
… Europeans) since at least the late 1910s. It was founded by Jews of Italian origin who had broken away from the main … di Constantinopoli (Community of Foreign Jews of the Spanish-Portuguese Rite of Istanbul). Their … city of Tel Aviv, joining a movement of other Ottoman Jews from Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria. For Cordova, …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… in “Imrei no’am,” recounts the injunction imposed on the Jews of Persia and their salvation by Esther and Mordecai, … Rosa Zaragoza recorded the song as “traditional among the Jews of Turkey. ' From the marketing strategy of the song by …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… the show on the ground that there were already too many Jews involved in it. We are told that the Jewish moguls of … throughout his career, were also ethnic (if not religious) Jews. A book in such a series might be reasonably expected …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… briefly discusses the precarious position of German-Jews in the context of Canadian Jewry in general, yet he … because it expresses the cultural reality experienced by Jews in this period and functioned as “a form and … becomes a site of Jewishness because it was performed by Jews such as Unger, and Unger performed his Jewishness …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… surviving melody found in the oral tradition of the Italian Jews. He based his assessment by comparing Rossi’s setting … … Liturgy … Psalms … Psalmody … Italian Machzor … Italian Jews … High Holidays - Yamim Nora'im … Salomone Rossi … Romaniote Jews … Hosha'nah Rabbah … Leo Levi … Torah … Torah reading … …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… from minority communities which inhabited Latvia, namely, Jews, Roma, Russians, Germans, Lithuanians, Poles, … ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of the cultural life of Jews in Latvia, with emphasis on their musical ecosystem. … (Marek and Ginzburg 1901). “Yiddish was widely spoken by Jews throughout the Baltic provinces” and in Kurland …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… maqam-oriented school of the Ades Synagogue of the Aleppan Jews. For many years, Nehemiah was cantor and preacher at … in Neo-Aramaic (the vernacular language of the Kurdish Jews), Kurmanji, Hebrew and Arabic. He was a sought-after … specific case, Gerson Kiwi’s fascination with the Kurdish Jews led her to catalogue each utterance of Hocha as …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… vividly transpires in her encounters with Middle Eastern Jews eternalized in her voluminous recordings. Edith … In many cases, those who formed part of this network were Jews of German or Central European extraction – some of them … Orient in Jewish Tradition, 1968 The Music of Kurdistan Jews - a Synopsis of their Musical Styles, 1971 Robert …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… his A Voice Still Heard: The Sacred Song of the Ashkenazic Jews (University Park and London, 1976, pp. 100-101) … in the Tikhkal , the general prayer book of the Yemenites Jews. In the course of time the text of “She’eh ne’esar” … implies that he believed in a strong interaction of German Jews with their gentile musical surroundings. Eric Werner …
Stefanie Mockert
… studies focus on the liturgical music of Southern German Jews, bringing in an interdisciplinary perspective inspired …