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Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… whose performing career also served as a gateway to scholarly achievement. Similarly, Rubin’s study relies … both caps and characterizes a distinctive period of klezmer scholarship. The methods and corpus of material upon which … the parameters and dynamics of Yiddish music performance-scholarship. Rubin's book allows the reader to …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… of Prof. Amnon Shiloah of the Hebrew University, an eminent scholar of music in the Islamic world and of the Jewish …
Moshe Cordova
… Tel Aviv, such as Bat Yam and Yahud. Through the agency of scholarship and a growing interest on the part of Israeli …
Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… Seroussi offers a master class on contemporary Jewish music scholarship and methodology. … Chanukkah … Hanukkah … …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… extend across the many components of American society. As scholars including Charles Hamm have noted, his first huge …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… into “strophes,” a peculiar feature discussed widely in the scholarly literature about this Psalm. Interestingly, a … by Levi, an odd claim that even Harrán quotes in his scholarly edition of Rossi’s Hashirim asher lishlomo … how the allure of Rossi’s Hebrew compositions to modern scholars impacts the perception of his setting of “Elohim …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector and scholar of folk songs. In addition to the Latvian folk songs … commentaries to the songs, it seems that the absence of a scholar familiar with Hebrew and Yiddish folk songs was … has not been altogether absent in Jewish folklore and music scholarship. In Lithuania (where Melngailis made his …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… about this notable cantor. Nehemiah Hocha, cantor and scholar, was born in Zakho , in the Kurdish region of Iraq …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… and Jewish music, and a mediator between German culture and scholarship and the nascent Israeli Jewish society. Despite … musical areas and disciplines, a critical appreciation and scholarly analysis of her life and work, including her … of this wide-spanning and intricate estate allows scholars to draw a picture of the trajectory of this unique …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… remarks that this is 'a fair example of Israeli musical scholarhip.' (ibid., p. 305, note 47) Rather than criticize … stanza on [ir]. This rhyme scheme, called by Hebrew poetry scholars me’ein ezori (“quasi muwashsha h ”) indicates that … difficult to fully justify a clear and stable hazaj . The scholarly edition of Ibn Gabirol’s religious poetry ( …