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The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire
… a time of both rising anti-Semitism and burgeoning Jewish nationalism, how and why did Russian music become the …
Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s Legacy
… Development, which in many ways redefined the international study of music in Jewish life. Using that book as a … on my previous work on music, aesthetics, and Jewish nationalism in fin-de-siecle Eastern Europe, I will explore … and sound in his self-conscious search for an authentic national musical aesthetic. Put differently, how and why did …
Contemporary American Jewish Music
… toward the Eastern European past and the American (and transnational) future. The responses ranged from unearthing …
Bloch: Known and Unknown
… Society in Israel and Honorary Vice President of the International Bloch Society. The Unknown Music of Ernest Bloch … modern or conventional. After his death, Bloch became internationally famous, but known to the new generation only for …
The Jewish Bloch
… of the last pre-First World War years constituted an international elite metropolitan discourse where various nationallybent, but aesthetically acceptable for most … he helped to legitimize poetically his Jewish- Hebrew-national quest in music. Bloch's achievements peculiarly …
Between Israeli and Jewish in Music
… Their aim was to design contemporary Israeli music as a national project, not as a branch of Jewish music which was … They failed in creating a desired, unequivocal “national style,” though a general ideology had been …
Musical Israeliness
… in Southern France. I consider Ben's transgression of national, cultural, political and religious boundaries as an …
Is Israeli Art Music Jewish?
… Their aim was to design contemporary Israeli music as a national project, not as a branch of Jewish music which was … They failed in creating a desired, unequivocal “national style,” though a general ideology had been …
Shevirath ha-kelim: The breaking of the vessel
… drum, cymbals and gong. The work was commissioned by the National Jewish Musical Art Foundation for the fiftieth …
Joseph Achron (On His 50th Birthday) (1936)
… written in Jerusalem Describes the origin of Jewish musical nationalism, the international emigration of Russian-Jewish composers, and praises …