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Rabbi David Buzaglo
… exponentially in the collective memory of the Moroccan Jewish diaspora. [3] After receiving a traditional Jewish … in the circles promoting modern Hebrew language and culture in Casablanca. For example, the repertoire of the … by Itzhak Katzenelson; this song itself originates from a Russian tune. [7] Moroccan cantors do not know how this …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… those areas of Ukraine (then part of Poland and later the Russian Empire). By the nineteenth century, it had become a … and Russian elites, as well as from Ukrainian peasant culture. A close examination of these reference points … as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one … in a town called Felixburg which was renamed Kurland by the Russians. [2] Yiska's dad's dad was Azriel Idelsohn. He was … variant. Although, Libau was a modern city with German culture, my father picked for me a Lithuanian teacher in a …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … far beyond this constricting narrative to recover Jewish culture, economics, politics, and society. Yet something of … with her father: “Shoshana’s love for dancing the horah and Russian kozatskas [read: kozachoks ] always remained with …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… , Idelsohn projected into this text his own vision of Jewish history and destiny as well as his take on prophecy … of modern Jewish identity. The internal politics of the Russian Empire towards its Jewish population shuttered down … his own self-understanding as a would-be prophet of Hebrew culture. According to Idelsohn, something sparked in the …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… The collection of historical Jewish field recordings at the Vernadsky National Library of … J. Zipperstein, and S An-Ski. The Worlds of S. An-Sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century. … agent of the Society for Jewish [original says “Hebrew”] Culture and Ethnography. He was sent to our city on behalf …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… Beregovski, Evreiskie narodnye napevy bez slov [ Jewish Tunes without Words , 1946]: This research was … accompanied by Beregovski’s own comments to the nign in Russian was published as a digital file in M. Beregovski, … century, becoming an emblematic signifier of modern Israeli culture. As Mazor has shown in his groundbreaking study, …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library … explained by the excitement generated by the opening of the Russian and Ukrainian archives of Judaica to Israelis in the … Institute’s library [i.e. Institute for Jewish Proletarian Culture], the offhand assertion that it had ‘never been …
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 … communities which inhabited Latvia, namely, Jews, Roma, Russians, Germans, Lithuanians, Poles, Belarussians, … The introduction offers English readers a survey of Jewish culture in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the … ethos of the Zionist movement and the Israeli culture that emerged from it. Even when he recorded in … center of a public controversy was “Arusiyyat,” meaning “Russian women.” A report in the NRG website from January 1, …