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Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… collectively, in a monophonic texture. They serve various religious functions and have a mystical background. This … but rather the expression and accompaniment of mystical experiences, it was widely appreciated for its beauty, … that Lantsman ascribed to Yosl are still sung today by religious Zionist families. One—performed as the …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… from an early age, which exposed him to the richness of the religious vocal repertoire of his community and to the Iraqi … hinder his general education and the study of Torah in the religious school he attended. Although his father … distinguished musicians in Egypt’s capital. Lacking prior experience with Meir Zaarur, Umm Kulthum sent a letter to an …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… in Latvia. [5] Sing. heder , traditional elementary religious school for boys. [6] Today Žemaitija, province in … of his harsh criticism, young Idelsohn’s exposure to this experience must have left in him an indelible memory. [12] …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… education; did not read and did not study [Torah], did not experience anything of a natural healthy life. Genius he … there? -- How could the children of the ghetto, who never experienced nature, who never saw a person standing up … poet as a prophet-seer and incorporated it into their non-religious Zionist agenda through the figure of ‘ha-tzofe …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… the same time, he became active in the Bnei Akiva (national religious) youth movement not only as a leader but also as a … that reigned in Hungary between the World Wars and the experience of surviving the Holocaust left a deep imprint in … the fabric of the new society. His ties to the national religious movement and his musical and musicological …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… in detail in that article. Research of Moroccan Jewish religious music has been largely, if not exclusively, … in diverse settlements in Morocco, many of them had experienced a transitional period in their lives when they … Maghrebi) resistance to centripetal forces affecting the religious culture of the Jews from Islamic countries in …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… and Falasha History (1986) situated Falasha liturgy and religious practices in a broader Ethiopian and Christian … referents and rap because it reflects their own racialized experiences—as a means of identifying with “blackness” as … Black Music as a Mediator of Young Israeli-Ethiopians’ Experience of Being ‘Black’ in a ‘White’ Society.” African …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… last social processes blurred the distinction between the religious and non-religious spheres of Jewish music-making since late 19 th … as a Gesamtkunstwerk , i.e. as they were performed and experienced in themselves and in relation to other occasions …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… on the other hand, spoke forcefully about his own Jewish religious faith and practices, including his own bar mitzvah … African-Americans and their cultural forms due to shared experiences of oppression) and “the exploitation narrative” …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… generally walk placidly down the middle of avenue of human experience within the limits sanctified by mid-twentieth … books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience….” Kaplan, no more than others of Berlin’s … friends, throughout his career, were also ethnic (if not religious) Jews. A book in such a series might be reasonably …