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Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… Yahalom found 'Bore 'as ana' in a manuscript of qinot from Spain dated in 1481 ('Poetry as an expression of … time, he acquired general education in a state school. From 1947 to 1950, as a young man, he was an underground … ethnomusicologist and her collaborator, the cantor from Kurdistan, is one of the many meetings of this type …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics makes public a forgotten source from the …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… only in one. Such a passage is a string of three verses from Psalm 80 which is recited by the cantor before the reading from the second Torah scroll during the morning services of … to the minhag Italiani , also known as minhag Bnei Roma or minhag lo’azim . While strings of scattered verses …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… 2 … 10 … The 78rpm recordings that are still emerging from archives around the world offer unique vistas on past … show, among many other matters, that widely popular songs from the turn of the 20th century are absent from late 20th century revivalist trends of these same …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Yet the concept of historical “influence” does not emanate from the stratum of historical facts; rather, it is a … seems to question this assumption. Taking his cue from Carlo Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms (1980 [1976]) … thus, it would seem that this chronicle of Unger’s life promulgates a non-identarian perception of Jewishness as a …
Dan Deutsch
… the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music and the Anne …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… permissions to third parties even to cite a few words from his lyrics. As a result, the schmaltzy legends planted … memory was of the family house burning down in a pogrom, the exciting adventures of the boy Berlin in the New … world (120 responses) which of Berlin’s melodies they knew from a dozen titles, showed a sharply diminishing recognition …
David Conway
… Jewry in Music: Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to Richard Wagner (Cambridge …
Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… examples) dozens of versions of the holiday classic drawn from different communities and eras. Not only a fascinating …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… special dishes, thoroughly cleaning the house, refraining from eating leavened bread for eight days). This embedding of … the song as “traditional among the Jews of Turkey. ' From the marketing strategy of the song by Zaragoza, … a la mano” without attribution to its author have ranged from the New England Conservatory in Boston to a singer …