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In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… to my friends and colleagues who on these unique days of social confinement generously shared with me their resources … University. David Edelstadt (1866–1892), one of the radical socialist Yiddish poets who settled in the USA in 1881, … charming” adding that “the song betrays a secular socialist slant on the traditional Passover narrative, …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone is the … well as to anticipate my focus on the record’s contemporary social interpretation. Today, the famous record is carefully … field of archeology. Developed in the early 1980s by the social theorist Bruno Latour and his colleagues at the …
Stefanie Mockert
… perspective inspired by philosophical aesthetics, social history, and critical theory. Mockert has been involved in …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Heidelberg, Freiburg i. Br. and Paris. When the National Socialists prevented the publication of her dissertation on … interfacing between multiple musical disciplines, history, comparative musicology and Jewish music, and a … and exchanged over a time span ranging from the National Socialist rule in Germany to Palestine under the British …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… piyyut ,' [In Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim … of repertoire and the consequences of migrations and other social dislocations on Jewish liturgical traditions. Before …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… life work. The survey also includes a brief general history of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of … with different melodies): The text of this song has a long history and many variants. For a detailed study, see Hazan … from the in-depth essays on such collections. Analyzing the social and institutional background of each collection, as …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… aim at demonstrating how individuals altered the course of history (“made history”) and how they were affected by it. Yet the concept … a shared German-Jewish experience of “highly destabilizing social and cultural reality” (12). Unger, in other words, …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… inspections of the collections.” (Zachary M. Baker, History of the Jewish Collections at the Vernadsky Library … with a specific research question regarding the musical and social context in which the Hassidic nign evolved in Right … Besides the aforementioned documents related to the history of the JMRC relation to the Kyiv collection, we …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… through a theoretical discourse. Eventually, these two last social processes blurred the distinction between the … of this project. … … Such developments were made socially feasible through the development of networks of … to integrate them within the narratives of European music history. Such a comprehensive approach does not …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… the qessim ’s authority. … Questions about the origins, history and (pre-halakhic) Judaism of Beta Israel had also … I describe. They also reflect a progressive engagement with social theory and particularly with race and Afro-Diasporic studies for understanding how social processes are intertwined with musical practices. In …