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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 …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… of fame in 1925, but Berlin steadfastly refused to cooperate with others who wished to write about him (except for … by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the legends by … 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)
… repertoire, to the point that its first verse also generated a popular adage, “Purim, Purim, Purim lanu, Pesah a … adage became the opening line of one of the most popular modern Ladino songs, “Pesah a la mano,” authored by singer, … mano” shows also the porosity between diverse Sephardi literary genres in different languages, written and oral. A …
Moshe Cordova
… They named their congregation Comunità Israelitico-Straniera di Rito Spagnuolo-Portoghese di Constantinopoli … of the acting chief rabbi of Istanbul, Haim Bejerano (also a poet and composer), Itzak Algazi, the … 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
… 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 takasim —the …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… in Vienna, Berlin and Paris. … The paradigm consists of several elements. First, a modern conceptualization of an endangered “heritage” of solo … taking place within this musical practice as the result of modernity and globalization. A lachrymose attitude to the …