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Contemporary American Jewish Music
… the various creative and aesthetic choices made by several generations of musicians as they attempt to push the … “Yeshivish” or Centrist community and Blue Fringe from the Modern Orthodox Community. This new form of music in the … are intertwined displaying the complexities and nuances of modernity. 5.8.09 … 15 … … 2009 … Contemporary American …
Bloch: Known and Unknown
… of one’s tradition. If this paradox was crucial to Bloch’s ‘modernity’, was he aware of it and was it shared by critics … this dilemma of Bloch reception and interpretation in the Modernist and Post-Modern eras with particular reference to his Jewish works. I also …
Between Israeli and Jewish in Music
… the Israeli Religious Authorities, whereas the younger generation receives a normative Jewish education in religious … the Jewish Ethiopian liturgy is still alive in modern-day Israel, as expressed in the construction of large … to introduce an alternative between the Ancients and the Moderns, by maintaining some old practices – such as …
The Beta Israel Liturgical Music in Israel Today: Between Tradition, Norm and Creativity
… the Israeli Religious Authorities, whereas the younger generation receives a normative Jewish education in religious … the Jewish Ethiopian liturgy is still alive in modern-day Israel, as expressed in the construction of large … to introduce an alternative between the Ancients and the Moderns, by maintaining some old practices – such as …
In Which Direction Do Hebrews Play Music?: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Musical Aesthetics of Zionism
… Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Special panel (Plenary of Literatures, Languages and Arts Section) In collaboration with … Summary: Where did Zionist aesthetics come from? For several decades now, this deceptively simple question has … and European models in the aesthetic development of Modern Hebrew culture. This paper proposes to explore what …
The Jewish Songster
… for public singing, which was asked for by the younger modern generation. This particular songster was prepared for use in … songs … America … Conservative Judaism … Conservative … Modernity … American … Modern … Judaism … American cantors … …
The Jewish Songster
… for public singing, which was asked for by the younger modern generation. This songster contains songs in English, Hebrew and …
Hazzan (pl. Hazzanim)
… 1. In Temple and talmudic days, the hazzan was a general communal functionary. Since the 6th century c.e., the … of the hazzan increased dramatically. Congregations generally required that their hazzan have a pleasing voice, a … character. The role of the hazzan today is similar in many modern congregations, though major reforms have been …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish communities. It consists of gatherings that … and, later, on radio and in films. The accessibility of the modern Arabic music spread by new media hastened its … music still echoed in the prayers and piyyutim; and a more modern stratum, the urban Arabic musical culture which …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… a quintessential Sephardi singer of his period, a critical era of deep social and cultural transition in the history of … community ruled by rabbinical authority was shattered by modernizing trends characterized by an exposure to Western culture (most particularly French), to liberal trends in Judaism (especially to Jewish nationalism or …