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Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, … of the mode. This may be understood as an instance of what Russian theorists call “mutability” ( ‘peremennost’ ); see … cantillation has co-existed with tonality in European culture since 1600. Ne’eman observes that melodic variants …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … Mahzor at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy in St. Petersburg D 101 (F 69720) includes … against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … new tunes, composed in the spirit of the new Hebrew musical culture, had a lively metric character calling for … renamed Ephraim Abileah (1881-1953). A Russian-born Jewish immigrant in Palestine, Abileah was a …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern … as “folk melody.” Indeed, the tune recalls those of Russian folksongs. However, it has not been located, thus … them had immigrated. Against the paradigm whereas Yiddish culture had a “one-way” circulation, from the Old to the New …
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, …
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, …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …