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My Path to Jewish Music
… of essays Mein Weg zur jüdischen Musik (My Path to Jewish Music), published in Vienna in 1935 by Jibneh-Musikverlag, … within the Jewish musician. While at the same time Russian composers (Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky) and … in music was a natural necessity. Taking the emergence of Russian music from the essence of folk song and dance as his …
Edith Gerson-Kiwi in Tehran (1961): Documents from a Revealing Journey
… by the playlist Edith Gerson Kiwi’s Recordings of Musical Traditions from Iran . “Persia’s geographical … Eastern Europeans (Jews and non-Jews alike, such as “the Russians”). Images of Germany remain very much present in … made a somewhat ingenious impression; he was a total Russian, with a massive head of long, unkempt hair and poor …
Antiguo Cancionero Sefardí: Old Judeo-Spanish Songs Recovered
… and Havassy 2009), which focused on Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) musical incipits appearing at the head of Hebrew … YHM7) is a compendium of piyyutim from the Hebrew Ottoman musical tradition. It consists of 143ff apparently binding … a traveler from Jerusalem to “Georgistan,” then part of the Russian Empire. The manuscript also includes a Hebrew song …
Lekha Eli Teshuqati: Experiencing total self-surrender to God in song
… of performing religious Hebrew poetry as Israeli popular music. This piyyut is among Ibn Ezra’s most outstanding … as a baqqashah in Sephardic Siddur, 14th-15th century, The Russian State Library, Moscow, Ms. Guenzburg 1230, fol 113 … his atonement of sins. Lekha Eli Teshuqati: The Sephardic Musical Tradition In most Sephardic communities, Lekha Eli …
Ury Eppstein
… one of the earlier scholars associated with the Jewish Music Research Centre and its academic secretary (ca. … while commencing his piano studies at the Rubin Academy of Music (today the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance). In … by RCA Records Israel, titled Nuns of Gethsemane Sing Russian Orthodox Prayer Chants , a rare recording that can …
Napoleon March
… supported Napoleon, the "emancipator of the Jews," or the Russian Tsar Alexander I, the dictator and oppressor. Based … Baruch Brenner and Matti Kovler have written a sort of musical monodrama with French marches and Cossack songs. We … Cossack tune of Chabad: "Niet, niet, niekavo," sung in Russian by Matti Kovler. In the background, one can even …
Sweet Hymns Shall Be My Chant
… tune for this text: a serious and majestic niggun with a Russian flavor. In the present arrangement, it has a certain … Jerusalem, Israel … Jerusalem, Israel … Kulmus Hanefesh: A Musical Journey into the Hassidic Niggun … Serussi, Serousi … Hasidic … Hasidic Music … Niggunim … 1469 … Ashkenaz … Contemporary … Hassidic …
Ech Ti Ziemliak - Ehad Mi Yodea?
… that of the Chabad cantor Berele Zaltsman. The text is a russian translation of the Passover Haggada song, " Ehad mi … Jerusalem, Israel … Jerusalem, Israel … Kulmus Hanefesh: A Musical Journey into the Hassidic Niggun … Serussi, Serousi … Hasidic … Hasidic Music … Niggunim … 1469 … Ashkenaz … Contemporary … Hassidic …
Eliezer Goldberg, alias Leyzerke Kremenitser
… Ukrainian: Вишнівець) in Volhynia, then a town in the Russian Empire. He received a religious education in … Nevertheless, at the age of twenty Eliezer, a self-taught musician, became a hazzan in his hometown. In subsequent … in Krakow (1936) Goldberg’s contemporaries compared his music to the works by the most distinguished cantors of …
Rabbi David Buzaglo
… is an opportunity to revive his biography in our website. A musical and rabbinical prodigy since his early days, Rabbi … by Itzhak Katzenelson; this song itself originates from a Russian tune. [7] Moroccan cantors do not know how this … “Bab el Wad,” a poem by the Israeli poet Haim Guri set to a Russian melody that marks a key event in the 1948 War of …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… study aims to trace the unique characteristics of a type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European … those areas of Ukraine (then part of Poland and later the Russian Empire). By the nineteenth century, it had become a … Twersky (1808–1882) of Talne (Yiddish spelling: Tolne; in Russian: Talnoye); hence his nickname “Tolner.” While the …
Sarah Gorby
… was a renowned Jewish singer known for performing Yiddish, Russian, and French folk songs. Her birth name was Sofia … culturally rich environment, significantly influencing her musical career. Gorby showed an early interest in music and … displaced Jews. Her post-war recordings expanded to include Russian and French folk songs, showcasing her linguistic …


