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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 … world during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. In musical terms, the Nahda is associated with the emergence of … land [stomp], forced us out of our homes [stomp], but our culture is something they cannot steal. When we stamp our …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… the preservation and research of these distinctive Jewish musical repertoires. Her activities led to the … universities and colleges, developing a focus on the Jewish musical practices in the Middle East. Significantly, she was … musicology and Jewish music, and a mediator between German culture and scholarship and the nascent Israeli Jewish …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… A lengthy introduction provides ample historical and musical contexts. Karnes did not spare any effort in trying … The introduction offers English readers a survey of Jewish culture in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, … the cultural life of Jews in Latvia, with emphasis on their musical ecosystem. According to Karnes, folk songs were …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… from archives around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… and the Worms (1980 [1976]) — which explores popular culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the eyes of a … to Mahler, according to Tesler-Mabé, is not only a musical and personal issue. Mahler, he argues, deeply affected Unger because he musically expressed a shared German-Jewish experience of …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… scholar of music in the Islamic world and of the Jewish musical traditions within it. Warkov wanted to study processes of change and acculturation in musical practice, and the Iraqi musicians provided an … and marginalized by mainstream (Western-oriented) Israeli culture. Only one Israeli institution— the Israeli Broadcast …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… toward homogenization under a burgeoning Israeli national culture, the Judeo-Spanish songs of Alicia’s youth were not … Jewish communities of North Morocco, including their rich musical lore. It has truly been an honor to study the life …
Arabs - Jews - Music
… of Antiquity found themselves living in lands where Arab culture and language predominated over all local traditions. … in which the Jewish-Arab encounter was intense. Shared musical spaces between Arabs and Jews is becoming a subject … within it studies that highlight different aspects of the musical lives of Jews in/from Arab countries, the …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Institute’s library [i.e. Institute for Jewish Proletarian Culture], the offhand assertion that it had ‘never been … of the collection, including, when available, the musical incipits. A rather large team of librarians, experts … erased) and all the accompanying formular s containing the musical and textual transcriptions of the songs would become …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… German music as a “universal” language against which other musical nationalisms in Europe defined themselves. … voices in synagogue choirs are an important aspect of this musical innovation. Third, the use of instrumental music, … a curiosity of European music. Also studying this musical culture against the backdrop of more general tendencies in …