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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 … “giving up” of Jewish identity in the process, is nearly as old as jazz itself. Already in the early 1920s, white Jews … plot of The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson of 1927) white Jews told themselves that they could only be admirers and perhaps …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… a nearby abandoned kindergarten. The center became home to older men who spun cloth on traditional weaving looms; women … song texts, highlighting the centrality of “wax and gold”—a metaphor that stands for the multiple semantic layers … performativity, and the politics of race, class and ethnicity within the discipline. Later studies of musical life …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… with the general pan-Sephardic practice although the specificity of its intonation marks it as unequivocally Moroccan. … to defined liturgical units, others reflect either older kabbalistic practices or modernizing trends. Kavvanot … of melodies, reproduces venerable practices from “the old country” as much as the taste of the specific performing …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… a touching emotional response by Idelsohn. In grieving Goldfaden , Idelsohn projected into this text his own vision … 1908) after he settled in Jerusalem. Source Text Abraham Goldfaden By Abraham Z. Ben Yehuda [Idelsohn] Hashkafa , … and had never himself seen? And how did he have the audacity to create a new thing, opposed to what was customary …
Az yashir Moshe (Song of the Sea; Exodus 15) (2 versions)
… on Sabbaths and Festivals. The present melody is the oldest and better documented one in the Sephardi repertoire, … Sephardi Jews, most particularly by those from New York City (see Salomon 1969). … The Western Sephardi Liturgical …
Yevarekhekha
… with piano accompaniment). According to him, this is an old Portuguese melody from New York City and it differs from the standard one used in the …
Keter
… in the morning prayers ( see above no. 14 ), adorned with old and new melodies. The present piece is another … music on this hazzan and composer. Upon arrival to New York City, Rev. Lopes Cardozo tried to introduce this melody to …
Alekhem 'eda qedoshah
… the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, are one of the oldest musical layers in the Western Sephardi liturgical … Almost the same melody is sung in Amsterdam and New York City. A version of this melody appears in the Aguilar and De …
Berukhim atem qehal emmunai
… An old Sephardi piyyut for circumcision, it is sung by the … community in Amsterdam by this hazzan and poet. This is an old melody from Amsterdam that Rev. Lopes Cardozo introduced … to the Spanish- Portuguese congregation in New York City. A very close version is transcribed by Aguilar and De …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… intimate scenes from the daily life of the Idelsohn household in Jerusalem. It is written in a flawless modern Hebrew, … transmits the persistent instability of the Idelsohn household in terms of financial security and dwelling locations. … emerging Jewish western neighborhoods outside the Old City are noticeable. Idelsohn’s total, even obsessive, …