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In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… 720 … In honor of May Day and the tradition of Jewish political radicalism in late nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, our … 2006. “Introduction: An-sky and the Guises of Modern Jewish Culture.” In The Worlds of S.An-sky: A Russian Jewish …

Jewish Liturgical Music in the Wake of Nineteenth-Century Reform
… are seen as a moderating influence in contrast to earlier radical reforms. The modest impact of Sulzer on Eastern … of the attempt to obtain a musical synthesis of two musical cultures, Jewish and European. … 2 … Sacred Sound and Social Change: …
A Bookshelf On Top of the Sky: 12 Stories about John Zorn
… Directed by Claudia Heuermann. John Zorn is a Jewish American composer who has been active in the New York … and Sephardic music. Zorn creates here what he calls radical Jewish culture, a prominent motif of his later career and a series …

The Jewish Bloch
… On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of his Death The Jewish Bloch Chair: Malcom Miller Zecharia Plavin, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance Bloch's Jewish-Hebrew musical narrative of Jewish Cycle and the late … generated 'nation-portraits' in view of the music-cum-culture-oriented commentators. Such a cultural discourse …
Enrico Fink
… and coordinators of the Online Thesaurus of Italian Jewish Music, international project devoted to the study of Italian Jewish musical repertoires. As a musician, he has devoted … of the Jewish cultural tradition, finding a path between "radical" and traditional, which uses both music and musical …

Hermann Levi's shame and Parsifal's guilt:A critique of essentialism in biography and criticism
… for Richard Wagner amounts to a shameful form of Jewish self-hatred, while “Parsifal”, far from espousing a …
The Idelsohn Project
… Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in the world is “Hava Nagila” (“Come, let us … Hassidic niggun) Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, was a European-born Jewish musician who insisted that music and affect were … “Hava Nagila” was consciously designed to conscript Jewish hearts into a Zionist political revolution. It …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern … Hebrew University. David Edelstadt (1866–1892), one of the radical socialist Yiddish poets who settled in the USA in … them had immigrated. Against the paradigm whereas Yiddish culture had a “one-way” circulation, from the Old to the New …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… Smith, on the other hand, spoke forcefully about his own Jewish religious faith and practices, including his own bar … be considered a Jew? Whose music should be considered a “Jewish” contribution to jazz? Either, both, or neither? … sees that the only means of authenticating Artie Shaw as Jewish, and Willie “The Lion” Smith as not Jewish, would be …