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Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… Upon Zangwill’s question, how can I return to Russia, where Jews are so maltreated, I answered that I prefer to be with … advice of relatives, to London intending to enroll at the Jews’ College where I would begin to study English. However, … and also the Hasidim. To get a full concept of the Oriental music, I collected the music of the Arabs, the …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German … in the journey, prepared delicious foods for us in the Oriental manner. We consumed the meal with a hearty appetite … the new Hebrew School. [14] The reference is to the Orientalist and Chief Librarian of the Imperial Library …
Zoock (Volkstanz) – Zhok (Folk dance)
… constant modal fluidity between A freygish and A gypsy or “oriental” (A freygish with an additional augmented second … the folk tunes and referred to an early transcription of a Jews’ Dance based on sustained drone of seventh, see example …
Nahôn libbo is hujire – Whole-heartedly is the fearful believer
… through the lenses of the modern national awakening of the Jews through the piyyut ’s meta-subjects: the believer’s … Jewish tune adapted from Idelsohn’s Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Music (1923b: 140, no. 193) is an unexpected turn … the antiquity of the music of the Yemenite and Babylonian Jews were echoed in Stutschewsky’s writings (1935 and 1946) …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… of California Press (Folk Literature of the Spanish Jews, I). … Armistead, Samuel G. and Joseph H. Silverman … of Jerusalem. … Idelsohn, Abraham Zvi 1923 >>> Gesänge der orientalischen Sefardim. Jerusalem-Berlin-Wien. ( Hebräisch-orientalischer Melodieschatz IV) … Kalyviotis, Aristomenis, …
The Idelsohn Project
… It emerged from his problematic racial theories about Jews and his ethnographic search for a primordial ur-sound … (1929) and his monumental ten volumes titled Hebräisch-orientalischer Melodienschatz (1914-1932). Yet, in spite of … public emotions; the distinctive physiognomy of Jewish Orientalism and its ties to early Arab- Jewish …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… words of the song are ‘Ehad manda’i’. The tune sounds to me Oriental. A few years ago, I heard the song ‘Ehad mi yode’a’ … He indeed agrees that the tune he sings bears Mizrahi (Oriental) or Arabic elements. Unlike few other Aramaic … of the Haggadah in Arabic…and they were Hassidic Ashkenazi Jews born in Israel. This means that Goelman’s inquiry had a …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… in the contemporary practice of the descendants of Aleppo Jews in Jerusalem (see example 2). Example 1: "Maq’helot … here, and also to collect melodies [“neginot”] from the Oriental Jews (such as Yemenites, Maghrebis, and Persians, … recordings (August 1, 1913) Lurie encountered the only "non-Oriental" Jew, Yaacov, a carpenter (plotnik) from the …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… issues emerged during early fieldwork among Moroccan Jews in Israel, it was always a peripheral topic, and mostly … liturgical repertoires mark sonic difference between Jews and Muslims in Morocco. They comprise an intimate space … to the diasporic Jewish commonwealth of Sephardic and Oriental pedigree and, to a certain measure, to modern …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… from minority communities which inhabited Latvia, namely, Jews, Roma, Russians, Germans, Lithuanians, Poles, … Meir Shimon Geshuri argued that “Our music must remain Oriental in character, since we were an Oriental people in the Land of Israel” (Geshuri 1943). A …