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Dan Deutsch
… Deutsch is currently an Azrieli postdoctoral fellow in the Musicology Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. … earned his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. His dissertation, Music as “Minor Literature”: Form and Syntax in Mahler’s Das …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take on assumed black music tastes) on which all of Berlin’s early works centred. … the consuming classes, film, and the radio, middle-men in music with a passion for selling like Berlin could also …
David Conway
… Studies in 2019-20. His publications include Jewry in Music: Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to … opera company HGO. (Photo credit: Smerus ) … British music historian … David Conway …
Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… Prof. Seroussi offers a master class on contemporary Jewish music scholarship and methodology. … Hanukkah … Chanukkah …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. Purim, Purim Lanu (Ladino …
Moshe Cordova
… m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … career as a synagogue singer and composer. Parallel to his musical career he developed a business in the field of … Mafṭirim performed Hebrew poetry set to Turkish classical music on the Sabbaths at the Italian Synagogue in Galata. …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From … Shiloah of the Hebrew University, an eminent scholar of music in the Islamic world and of the Jewish musical …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… glad to launch the sixth volume in the Contemporary Jewish Music series, 13 Jewish Folk Tunes, an online … downloadable program notes on the genesis of this work, musical analysis of the composition, and an extensive … channel . … 7 … 38838 … Jerusalem, Israel … Jewish Music Research Centre … Contemporary Jewish Music … 6 … 2020 …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras . Syracuse: … trilogy of sorts, alongside Hankus Netsky’s Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth Century Jewish Philadelphia (2015) and Walter Zev Feldman’s Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory (2016). Like those books, New …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… and penetrating history of Jews in American jazz music, which should become a first stop for those wishing to … nearly everything about the history of Jews and jazz music is difficult to categorize, analyze, or even begin to … So who in this situation should be considered a Jew? Whose music should be considered a “Jewish” contribution to jazz? …