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Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… terms, the Nahda is associated with the emergence of a new school, which, having its roots in Egypt, saw the … for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long time, was regarded as one of the … his passion for music. According to his great niece in New York, Taboush lost his eyesight when, after running away …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… in Kurland, included in his publications many songs he knew through oral transmission from his childhood (Idelsohn … section 2 is the lowest tone (with possible claim for centricity). Yet the end of section 3, then, clearly reverts to … Mike Weintraub in a 1948 recording by Ben Stonehill in New York, in a collection of Yiddish and Hebrew songs sung by …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… similarities led Jacobson to his conclusion that Rossi knew at least one “real” Jewish (oral) melody. To make his … of such oral tradition, endows him with an aura of authenticity valued by modern scholars. Undoubtedly, Rossi composed … : Romaniote Chanting for Shabbat Evening in Greece and New York City,” Dartmouth College, 2020. I thank Gabriel for …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… around 1614, invited to serve as hazzan (cantor) of the new, flourishing Portuguese Jewish community. In 1628, he published in his adopted city a compendium of piyyutim , “Imre no’am,” which … di mi nona” (Songs of My Grandmother) in 1989 (New York: Global Village). Traditional patterns animate its …
Moshe Cordova
… Edirne Jewish community, following the devastation of this city during the Balkan Wars and World War I. In the capital … the socio-political and economic realities of the new Turkish Republic. However, from the musical point of … him in his journeys to Cuba and eventually to Brooklyn, New York. In America, Elnadav taught selections from Cordova’s …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity . New York: Routledge, 2017. In Jews and Jazz , Charles Hersch has …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… Illit (today Nof HaGalil) neighborhood largely populated by new immigrants from Ethiopia, and working as a volunteer in … performativity, and the politics of race, class and ethnicity within the discipline. Later studies of musical life … from Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century . New York and London: New York University Press. Kaplan, Steve …
Curt Sachs
… theory and composition as a youth in that city. He began a career as an art historian, but promptly … and later to the United States, where he settled in New York City. In 1913, Sachs saw the publication of his book …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… Yiddish, Abraham Goldfaden has died. And while all Jewish newspapers and even some non-Jewish newspapers reported, … and had never himself seen? And how did he have the audacity to create a new thing, opposed to what was customary … -- By saying died, I do not mean his recent death in New York, “that hundreds and thousands of Jews” went to paid him …
Lekha dodi
… that were customary at the Spanish-Portuguese synagogue in New York City, A fixed feature of his performance, probably stemming …