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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 … new perspective on the emergence of Russian Jewish culture.' (from the book cover) … 85 … 1 … 288 … Yale … … 2010 … Jewish … Russia … Jewish identity … Russian Jewish culture … Russian Empire … James Loeffler … The Most Musical …
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 … of Idelsohn’s aesthetic vision of Israeli musical culture during his years in the yishuv and afterward. Noah … on my previous work on music, aesthetics, and Jewish nationalism in fin-de-siecle Eastern Europe, I will explore …
Contemporary American Jewish Music
… toward the Eastern European past and the American (and transnational) future. The responses ranged from unearthing … non-Jews alike, the idea of a thriving secular Yiddish song culture seems absurd. Most scholarly discussions suggest … ‘klezmer revival’ of the late 20th century brought Yiddish culture to a new, younger audience, spawning new fusions of …
Bloch: Known and Unknown
… a wider phenomenon of negotiation of identities and cultures. Dalia Atlas, Technion, Haifa, Head of The Ernest … 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 … generated 'nation-portraits' in view of the music-cum-culture-oriented commentators. Such a cultural discourse …
In Which Direction Do Hebrews Play Music?: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Musical Aesthetics of Zionism
… history of cultural Zionism and the formation of Israeli culture. Scholars of Hebrew literature have focused … 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 …
The Father of Jewish Musicology and the Natives: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Yemenites
… capturing what he thought was the entirety of this exotic culture. This was no doubt a result of ardent national consciousness on his part, as well as sheer …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… modernizing trends characterized by an exposure to Western culture (most particularly French), to liberal trends in Judaism (especially to Jewish nationalism or Zionism) and to subversive political …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts (hereby: IMHM) at the National Library of Israel, we can reconstruct with a … the melody of Shofet kol ha’aretz in the manuscript of the National Library in Prague, Narodni Knihovna v Praze VI Ea 2 … against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises …
Hay ram galeh
… films. Jerusalem Jews embedded in the modern Egyptian Arab culture in Mandatory Palestine were just another avid client … texts of the Arabic songs, some of which are overtly nationalist and anti-Israeli, and the commitment of the … by a series binary opposites: secular versus religious, national Egyptian versus national Jewish (Zionist), female …