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The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… … Berlin-born Edith Gerson-Kiwi (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied … Jewish society. Despite her significant contributions across many musical areas and disciplines, a critical … 1992, most of Edith Gerson-Kiwi's extensive estate was acquired by the European Center for Jewish Music (EZJM) in …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… the Talmud, Halacha and Zohar. At the same time, he acquired general education in a state school. From 1947 to 1950, … Jerusalem. He sang in a variety of languages and styles, sacred and secular in Neo-Aramaic (the vernacular language of … innovation, the result of recent displacements, liturgical crosspollination and homogenization taking place in …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Jewish items in Melngailis’s collection, which were considered lost, were retrieved by Karnes (apparently only … the first collection of folk song texts in Yiddish appeared (Marek and Ginzburg 1901). “Yiddish was widely spoken by … dance” by a Latvian performer, are probably instances of cross-over from Jewish music rather than towards it. [3] …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… version effectively authorized by Berlin himself, had appeared during his earliest phase of fame in 1925, but Berlin … the younger the respondent. The only song that scored 100% was, inevitably, “White Christmas” — and, more … American songs – songs whose appeal could extend across the many components of American society. As scholars …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… in musical practice, and the Iraqi musicians provided an incredibly rich case study to investigate. In Baghdad, Jewish … had not only traversed cultural worlds, but had also suffered a deep loss of status. Having been prominent, commercial … Andalusian Orchestra and other Jewish and Arab ensembles across the country, as well as various ensembles dedicated to …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… engaged in collective documentation projects, prepared historically informed and creative performances, and … nearly every note recorded by people who have become revered as masters of instrumental klezmer music in the 1920s, … as a common mode of expression with its own variations across Jewish communities, limiting his analysis to melodic …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… people of Judah. So who in this situation should be considered a Jew? Whose music should be considered a “Jewish” contribution to jazz? Either, both, or … This part also includes those African-American artists who crossed over the identity line in the other direction, …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… evolving aesthetic ideals, of Jewish public emotions, of cross-cultural intersections between Jews with the … elements. First, a modern conceptualization of an endangered “heritage” of solo cantorial music (at times framed … of this heritage from foreign accretions that have obscured its pristine primordial forms. Second, the enrichment of …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… bobbins or brought homemade baskets and pottery to be fired at the kiln and put up for sale, and a traditional music … events, such as the Safed Music Festival and the Red Sea Jazz festival. The kindergarten’s yard sported a … musics and identities of Ethiopian Jews in Israel across three decades. Compared with these works my thesis …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… project and will be updated as new information is gathered. It is part of the JMRC project of publishing a critical … of 1946 (see above), was published several times. It appeared in print for the first time in Beregovski’s Evreiskiie … with which nigunim are rapidly transmitted and transformed across time and space by different agents. It also shows that …