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Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… and repertoires in an attempt to entertain a fickle, modernizing, even assimilating public. The cameraman who …
Sounds from the Divine: Religious Musical Instruments in the Ancient Near East
… if not all, known cultures of the ancient as well as the modern world. Musical sounds — whether created by human …
Aristophanes’ Phrynichos and the Orientalizing Musical Pattern
… ambition — a connection that, in turn, “influenced the modern scholarly association of αβpoσυvη with political …
Ancient Music in the Modern Classroom
… … Music education … Education … Ancient Music in the Modern Classroom … Yossi Maurey …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… accorded the Binding of Isaac a significant role in pre-modern times (Katz 2008). A Yiddish prose adaptation of the … Yet the most outstanding retelling of this story in pre-modern Yiddish literature is the epic poem Yudisher shtam … 183, fn. 29), making it the most documented poem in pre-modern Yiddish literature (Shmeruk 1967, 202). The surviving …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness … both in the Yiddish-speaking world as well as in the modern Hebrew song repertoire in the Land of Israel. I am … religious origins and dimensions. The song shows how in the modern period Jewish cultural memory is refracted anew …
Moshe Attias
… repertoire also reveals some of the ambivalent aspects of modern Moroccan Jewish identity. Religious zeal intertwines with modern secular practices, while rooted musical and textual …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… Jewish Music on August 3, 1978, which would launch the very modern phenomenon subsequently labeled the “Jewish Baroque.” … proportions and contextualize it as a phenomenon of Jewish modernity’s drive to create a “normative” historical Jewish … the by-now ubiquitous “Jewish Baroque,” that “invention” of modernity that does not cease to attract audiences to …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… they imply not only the dissociation of those living in the modern state of Israel from the historical landscape from … legacy of the Nahda as a project of a distinctively Arab modernity (Shannon 2006, 58-66; see also Hanssen & Weiss … Teppich: das Medium Schellackplatte im Kontext von Modernisierung und Nationalismus im Iran . Hildesheim: …
Stefanie Mockert
… in which framework she contributed a study on the early modern community in Munich “Musical Transformation of …