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Four Melodies for Four Questions
… and other pedagogical texts) with liturgical ones (blessings, prayers and psalms). The musical repertoire for the … time (see for example our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs added at the end of the seder is … edited by Mordecai Kaplan (1941). Judith Kaplan Eisenstein, along with along with Ira Eisenstein and Eugene Kohn, …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… emotional and religious feelings among listeners. Surprisingly, this topic has been the subject of little scholarly … 13–16), Yiddish translations of Hebrew ‘Akedah piyyutim alongside Yiddish commentaries appear in Maḥzorim , etc. … a fourteenth century Seliḥot anthology is preceded by the singing instruction Be-niggun ‘Akedah (Reuchlin 7, 63r. Fig …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… 1965 One of Warkov’s primary methodological tools for assessing processes of change and acculturation within musical … 1990s, in part due to the Oslo peace process and to increasing international interest in ‘world’ or ‘ethnic’ musics, … some of which are published here for the first time, alongside her dissertation. The interest in the work of …
Moshe Attias
… Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent passing of Cheikh Mwijo (1937-2020), one of the most … Silver. Sitting in a café in Haifa one day, Mwijo began to sing and this, he recalled, literally brought the … I personally owe him deep thanks for this warm support along the path, with special songs that he composed and …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… in a car, driving on a mountain road that winds down along the Lebanese coastline, overlooking the Mediterranean … trademark sign, the gazelle, and the name of the singer and the song written in Arabic, Hebrew and English. … and the Hebrew, as well as the English inscriptions of the singer’s name read Raf oul Tabba ch , instead of Raphael …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… origin Joachim Braun (Bar Ilan University), whose passing Karnes mourns (p. vi); indeed, reading Karnes’s … documentation of the Melngailis project as a whole, disclosing Karnes’s intimate familiarity with Melngailis’s life … to Karnes’s volume calls attention to “encounters along the Baltic coast” between Jews and non-Jews. Despite …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… a choir in a Lower East Side Temple. Oh, and he took along his youngest son who could also sing a little” (4). No source or reference is given for any … no other speaker could speak”. This latter phrase Kaplan singles out as “modernism on the hoof: startlingly formal …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… 1965 One of Warkov’s primary methodological tools for assessing processes of change and acculturation within musical … 1990s, in part due to the Oslo peace process and to increasing international interest in ‘world’ or ‘ethnic’ musics, … some of which are published here for the first time, alongside her dissertation. The interest in the work of …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Century completes an American klezmer trilogy of sorts, alongside Hankus Netsky’s Klezmer: Music and Community in … Rubin employs strategies that help him gain a foothold, using a linguistic theoretical framework (drawn on Benjamin … technique as contemporary audiences found themselves increasingly removed from their immigrant origins. One can say the …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… and emperors—which over many centuries had brought increasing marginalization, forced conversions, dwindling numbers … of music in daily life in Ethiopia and in Israel, focusing on “change and continuity” largely through performance … means of identifying with “blackness” as primary identity (alongside a delinquent lifestyle) over marginalized …