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The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… to a rapid diffusion of Jewish liturgical melodies in the modern era. Gershon Efros in his Cantorial Anthology (vol. …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… will be shown below) and are presented to the reader in a modern, annotated edition. A lengthy introduction provides … (Burstyn 2015/16). Indeed, scholars have claimed that modern Hebrew songs were intentionally composed in imagined …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… one sees how the allure of Rossi’s Hebrew compositions to modern scholars impacts the perception of his setting of … endows him with an aura of authenticity valued by modern scholars. Undoubtedly, Rossi composed this text …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… Sephardi songs that have not entered the canon of the modern discography. It also barely survived in the Sephardic … the song and arranged it for choir, in the spirit of the modernist approach to folk songs characteristic of the twentieth-century Bulgarian school of composition. His modern polyphonic arrangement was recorded by the choir …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Mahler also straddles the ground between romanticism and modernism and, following the revival of his oeuvre in the … played a role in Unger’s attempt to situate himself as a modernist, especially in the fairly peripheral context of … communal musical production, or his negotiation of artistic modernism within relatively conservative environments. Yet …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… could speak”. This latter phrase Kaplan singles out as “modernism on the hoof: startlingly formal innovation …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… adage became the opening line of one of the most popular modern Ladino songs, “Pesah a la mano,” authored by singer, …
Moshe Cordova
… Israeli Radio from the Ohel Moed synagogue, the central and modern Sephardic sanctuary in south Tel Aviv. Two …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… and had also laid the foundation for what became known as modern Iraqi music. Most of these musicians moved to Israel … Its development was entwined with ideas and processes of modernization. Warkov focused especially on takasim —the …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… from 1924 shows Stutschewsky’s exposure to Central European modernism embedded within a Jewish multi-ethnic scene that …