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Bessie Schonberg
Bessie Schönberg was born in Hanover, Germany in December 1906, the youngest of three…
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
In 1958, on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk…
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
This article shows the crystallization of the prayer and singing style known as “…
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
If you have ever searched for Hatikvah online, you were surely exposed to a barrage of…
Moritz Rosenhaupt
By Edwin Seroussi
German cantor and composer Moritz/Moses Rosenhaput was born (see…
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
Introduction
Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other…
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the…
Bernardo Feuer
Bernardo Feuer was born on May 1st, 1910 in Lemberg [Lviv], a city then part of the…
Stefanie Mockert
Mockert, who graduated in Musicology from Humboldt University, Berlin, is a researcher…
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics:…