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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 … from his own personal memory (in his youth he was cantor in Germany). Notice also that Idelsohn provided two different …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Comparative Musicology. Lachmann was also forced to leave Germany in 1936 and settled in Jerusalem. There he founded … by the European Center for Jewish Music (EZJM) in Hannover, Germany. The second section of her estate (letters and her … them former fellow students of hers – who had fled from the Nazis. As such, these individuals not only had to build a …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… 1850s, decades after this practice was well established in Germany, but almost half a century before the first … 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 …
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 … Following recent scholarly attention to German Jewry in Germany after World War II (Brenner 1997; Geller 2005; …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… as he experienced it across the Baltic region, urban Germany, Ottoman and early British Palestine, Lithuanian … . Shoshanah Idelsohn was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1905 and moved to Palestine with her father, … spoken language in opposition to the orphanage of the Ashkenazi community run by the Haredi community where Yiddish was …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… even Lewandowski seemed Germanized. The life of the Jews in Germany, too, was Germanized. This was not only true of the … years. There I was compelled to study thoroughly the Ashkenazic chazzanut , and I transcribed it in musical notation. … Bukharans, Sefardim, Moroccans, and the various Ashkenazim, and also the Hasidim. To get a full concept of the …
Matthew Austerklein
… his PhD in Jewish Studies at Halle-Wittenberg University in Germany, where is been advised by Dr. Diana Matut and Dr. … focuses on the musical professionalization of the Ashkenazic cantorate in early modern Europe, but encompasses a … & Synagogue Music Archive , an digital repository for Ashkenazi cantorial manuscripts. Austerklein has served on the …