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Yonatan Turgeman
… PhD candidate in the Hebrew University Musicology Department, a fellow of the PhD Honors Program in the Mandel School of Advanced Studies, and an active musician ('Avodot Afar'). His dissertation, 'The Science of … discipline. His book, 'The Bridge is Dead: A Theory & Short History of Everyday Songs in Hebrew', was published in 2017 …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… in sections according to the different Turkish makam s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem … as the first half of the 18th century: Venice, with its history of Hebrew printing presses and trade; and the … to makam Rast places this version in the realm of Turkish music. Secondly, the title clearly delineates its …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … 1794). Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common … Driven by a nationalist-oriented agenda to constitute a history of Jewish music in Europe which would resonate with …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone is the … stored in the shelves of the Lebanese Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research (AMAR). Located in the little …
Stefanie Mockert
… Mockert, who graduated in Musicology from Humboldt University, Berlin, is a researcher at the Hebrew University's Jewish Music Research Centré. Her studies focus on the liturgical … perspective inspired by philosophical aesthetics, social history, and critical theory. Mockert has been involved in …
Clara Wenz
… Clara Wenz is an ethnomusicologist specializing in Middle Eastern music, music and sound studies, political … (CAAS), 9th Symposium, Paris, France, 19-20 Oct 2018. “History on Rewind: Traveling with an Arab-Jewish Baidaphon …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new bar in the musicological study of the piyyut . His insights on a … this date was associated with other catastrophes in Jewish history. In spite of its prominence in Jewish historical …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” is a joint … Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Germany) and the Jewish Music Research Centre (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, … interfacing between multiple musical disciplines, history, comparative musicology and Jewish music, and a …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… piyyut ,' [In Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim … such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … among various communities, there seems to be an underlying musical structure tying together all the documented versions …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … A lengthy introduction provides ample historical and musical contexts. Karnes did not spare any effort in trying … life work. The survey also includes a brief general history of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of …