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Music in Jewish History and Culture
… A survey of Jewish music from Biblical times to the present that compiles a … in-depth insights into the social context in which the music is created, performed, judged and consumed. … 1 … … MI … Harmonie Park Press … … 2006 … Jewish music … Jewish History … Music history … Cantorial music … USA … Bible … …
Music of the Ghetto and the Bible
… Written as a memoire of the musical encounters of the author, composer and conductor … Western intellectuals regarding the authenticity of Jewish music in the East. … 1 … New York … Bloch … … 1934 … Research … Orientalism … Music history … Jewish music … Jewish community … Ethnomusicology …
The World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine, 1936–1940: Jewish Musical Life on the Eve of World War II
… A survey of the history and personalities of an ambitions pre-World War II … create an institution that will document and promote Jewish music while moving the operations from an insecure Europe to … … Oxford University Press … … 1992 … Palestine … Jewish music … Research … Preservation … Documentation … Musicology …
Israeli folksongs
… to the land), can identify with. These include: scenery, history, as well as the security and the settling of the … The songs within the genre of Israeli Folksongs also share musical similarities. These include the fact that many are … of a new, Hebrew, non-Diaspora Jew. As part of this effort, music held an integral role. This can be seen through the …
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… the Dutch Jewish community's most important structures. Its history and that of Amsterdam's Jewish community reflects … founders were the “Marranos and Anusim, who brought music with them from the Catholic church.” [1] He offers the … In addition to being a rabbi he was also a professional musician, like Salomone de Rossi, which could explain why he …
Yiddish Theater: A Love Story
… other story told is of Yiddish theater itself, some of its history in the United States and some of the people, plays … Spaisman herself, Shifra Lerer who discusses and plays music of hers and her husband, Ben Zion Vitler, who helped … the language, to the costumes, to the set designs, and the music. Three songs are sung on stage including Hirshbein's …
Had Gadya
… Gadya is the article by Menachem Zvi (Harry) Fox, “On the history of the songs ‘E h ad mi yode’a’ and ‘ H ad Gadya’ in … the modern fate of the song with in contemporary Israeli musical repertoire. H ad Gadya was incorporated to the … its persecutors. A contemporary take on H ad Gadya and its musical setting Along with its various literary …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… ad Gadya, the article by Menachem Zvi (Harry) Fox, “On the history of the songs ‘E h ad mi yode’a’ and ‘ H ad Gadya’ in … the modern fate of the song with in contemporary Israeli musical repertoire. H ad Gadya was incorporated to the … its persecutors. A contemporary take on H ad Gadya and its musical setting Along with its various literary …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… wherever they live, and wherever they have a cultural history rather than immigrate to Palestine. This concept was … of Russian Jewish political life.” (4) There are two main musical arrangements to the song. The first is a monophonic … associated with Saint Petersburg’s Society for Jewish Folk Music . The soprano voice follows a melodic line similar to …
Ve-Hi She-’Amda – Piyyut from the Passover Haggadah
… and the author is unknown. It addresses how, throughout history, many enemies have arisen seeking to destroy Israel, … a long section in the Haggadah that is just read aloud. Music There are a number of arrangements to this piyyut, …