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Moshe Cordova
… leaders of the Mafṭirim Choir, a renowned synagogue choir from Edirne that continued its activities in Istanbul. The … was founded by Jews of Italian origin who had broken away from the main body of the Sephardi community, placing … its heyday in the early twentieth century, Jewish singers from various quarters of Istanbul, as well as from various …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked under the direction of Prof. … Jewish musicians had for generations served as the most prominent practitioners and disseminators of Near Eastern …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… and composer and pianist Amit Weiner. This early work from 1924 shows Stutschewsky’s exposure to Central European …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… mission. Beyond Rubin’s larger claims of the era’s shift from breath-based ornamentation to polished technique, beyond … systems, and beyond his efforts to identify a “style” from these recordings, then, the book is an exercise in … history and performance alongside confirmatory excerpts from Rubin's own interviews. His focus on the (documented) …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… parse. For instance, take the following wonderful moment from Hersch’s book, in which the great stride pianist Willie … Jewry leads him to exclude Willie “The Lion” Smith from the status of Jewish jazz musician. Rather Hersch … race assumptions at work, both as they exclude Shaw from playing authentic jazz, and Smith from being an …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… by the women’s songs of the Jewish community of Tetuan. Romances (ballads) were often sung as canciones de cuna , or … oral tradition. Alicia learned much of this repertoire from the female figures in her life, such as her grandmothers … in the early 1980’s, noted that Alicia was a rare singer from her region due to the fact that she did not rely on an …
Arabs - Jews - Music
… different aspects of the musical lives of Jews in/from Arab countries, the sociocultural milieus in which they … to life and encounters between Arab and Jewish musicians from Morocco to Iraq. The project also features studies …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… The complicated paths of encounter between scholars from around the globe and the Kyiv collection continue to … Yiddish and Hebrew languages, engaged in this project from 1996 to 1999. Adler made public his plans in his essay … musiques, terrains et disciplines: textes offertes à Simha Arom , ed. V. Dehoux and others (Paris, 1995), 247–67. The …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… at large. The historical period under investigation dates from the early 19 th century up to World War II, … defined themselves. Similarly, local synagogue repertoires from London through Trieste to Odessa evolved in conversation … These processes demanded the “cleansing” of this heritage from foreign accretions that have obscured its pristine …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… HaGalil) neighborhood largely populated by new immigrants from Ethiopia, and working as a volunteer in Meseret , a … over 6,000 Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel) were airlifted from refugee camps in Sudan—was housed in a nearby abandoned … fiddle), washint (flute) and kebero (barrel drums) were prominently displayed at the center. … I was then an …