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Jubal in the Middle Ages
… 'the father of them that play upon the harp and the organ,' steps out of ancient, antediluvial times in Genesis …

Introduction to Idelsohn’s Autobiographical Sketches
… in January 1935 in Die Chasanim Welt , the journal of the organization of Jewish cantors in Poland; the second, in …

The Announcement of the Institute of Jewish Music in Jerusalem by A.Z. Idelsohn and S.Z. Rivlin in 1910
… certain initiatives affecting the cantorial profession: organizations, journals, and endeavours to set up …

The Archives of the World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine, 1936-1940, at the Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem
… is to introduce the documentation of yet another attempt to organize pre-statehood musicological endeavours: the 'World … was doomed to disappear a few years after its inception, organizational efforts were most effective and succeeded not … fruits of labour generally associated with a musicological organization. Despite the problems of isolation in a still …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… to imply that this piyyut was not to be accompanied by the organ . Remarks In this rendition, Samuël David … has been transcribed by Gerson Rosenstein, the first Jewish organist of the nineteenth-century German Reform movement, …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… by tradition as Mount Sinai. It was a Passover celebration organized on the Sinai Peninsula by a group of eighty … as one of the songs in an online Yiddishist Third Seder organized by the New York-based Yiddish newspaper Forward . …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… A x B we have seen in written sources in terms of rhythmic organization (fixed meter in A, flexible beat in the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… fund: 6998. 1929–1935), the “Central Jewish schools organization, Private evening gymnasium for adults …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… community orchestras and later on a provisional orchestra organized by his “supporters” (63). These venues, it should …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… could also prosper. Berlin’s two great marketing coups in organizing army shows in the two world wars are striking …