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German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… four voices a capella (substituting older improvised Ashkenazi forms of choral accompaniment), partially based on … Among other well-entrenched concepts in studies of Ashkenazi liturgical music, this study will also challenge the … as Protestant versus Catholic environments informed Ashkenazi synagogue musical practices. The innovative potential …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Shofar 10, no. 4 [1992; Special Issue: Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies], pp. 31-48, quote in p. 34 and also …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… Artie Shaw about Judaism. Although Shaw was a white Ashkenazi Jew, through most of his career he hid his ancestry, … as it pertains to white Jewish practitioners. White Ashkenazic Jews such as George Gershwin and Benny Goodman, who in … of clarinetist and saxophonist Mezz Mezzrow, a white Ashkenazic Jew who finally declared himself Black. Norman Mailer …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… Stutschewsky … Cello - Violoncello … Klezmer music … Ashkenazim … Ashkenazi … Sephardi … Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes …
Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… Cantors … Hanukkah … Chanukkah … Piyyut … Ashkenaz … Ashkenazi cantorate … Hazzanut … Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Karnes discusses Melngailis’s views during the Nazi occupation of the Baltic States. He quotes Melngailis’s … Jewish cowboys (Gottlieb 2004, 64). Also Yemenite-Ashkenazi intermarriages in Israel during the 1930s and through … system of accentuation served the interlocutors—the Ashkenazi system, where the accent most often falls on the …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… them former fellow students of hers – who had fled from the Nazis. As such, these individuals not only had to build a …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… in his A Voice Still Heard: The Sacred Song of the Ashkenazic Jews (University Park and London, 1976, pp. 100-101) … the well-entrenched presence of Sephardic poetry in Ashkenazi prayer, and the overall musical style of the melody … 3+3+6. The poem already appears in one of the oldest Ashkenazi orders of prayers, dated as early as the twelfth …
Moshe Attias
… narratives of forced cultural erasure by an aggressive Ashkenazi-dominated establishment. Mwijo’s repertoire also … too, the song in honor of Rabin, an icon of Ashkenazi Israeliness, is one of the most mizrahi songs Mwijo …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac, … the great significance of the ‘Akedah narrative in Ashkenazi culture, as expressed through the poems that were sung … Jews throughout the ages (Sabar 2009, 9–27). In Jewish Ashkenazi Culture The Binding of Isaac maintained a key role …