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Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… omitting the character of Sarah altogether. Midrashic literature elaborates on the narrative at length, and it is … 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 …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 … 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 taqasim —the …
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 … in London (1925), Moscow (1935) and Buenos Aires in several editions (from 1946 onwards, by the David Edelstadt …
Moshe Attias
… father of Sliman Elmaghribi, another musician of Mwijo’s generation. This ensemble also included Mimoun Turjeman and … 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
… magnificent Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, is one of several works by Jewish and few non-Jewish composers (such as … 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 …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… company active in the Middle East during the phonograph era; [1] from here onwards, I will refer to this record as … 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 …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… in Jewish historical memory, this fast day has not generated nearly as much Hebrew poetical creativity as the … development of the piyyut genre (and of Jewish music in general), Avenary placed “She’eh ne’esar” at an historical … 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 … readers a survey of Jewish culture in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, Russian, Hebrew and Yiddish) … (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
… versions and lineages of transmission crystallized into several minhagim (“customs” or “traditions”) once the printing … 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 …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… assuming a distinction between particular agencies and general historical trajectories. Hernan Tesler-Mabé’s Mahler’s … 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 …