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Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac,…
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
Introduction
It is November 15, 2016 and I am sitting in a car, driving on a mountain…
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics:…
Moshe Cordova
Moshe Cordova
Composer, singer, ‘ud and piano player Moshe Cordova (b. Edirne,…
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity. New York: Routledge, 2017…
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
I spent the summer of 1989 living in a Nazareth Illit (today Nof HaGalil) neighborhood…
Curt Sachs
Born in Berlin, Sachs studied piano, music theory and …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
The passing of the founder of the Yiddish theater spawned a touching emotional response…
Lekha dodi
Kabbalat shabbat ("Welcoming of the Sabbath"), a ritual developed by the kabbalists
of…
Tzur mishelo akhlanu
Table songs (zemirot shabbat), poems sung by family and guests after the festive Sabbath…