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Inventing Jewish Music
One of the first attempts to trace the archaeology of the concept of Jewish music in…
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
The beautiful Dutch synagogue is also known by its Ladino name, Esnoga, and is one of…
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
If you have ever searched for Hatikvah online, you were surely exposed to a barrage of…
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
Introduction
Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other…
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac,…
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
Introduction
It is November 15, 2016 and I am sitting in a car, driving on a mountain…
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
I spent the summer of 1989 living in a Nazareth Illit (today Nof HaGalil) neighborhood…
Craig Taubman
Craig Taubman is a singer and composer, known both for his Jewish liturgical music for…
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
The passing of the founder of the Yiddish theater spawned a touching emotional response…
A Recovered Voice from the Past
Preface
The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German…