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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 … a musician whose prolific journalistic writing formed a direct extension of his musical career at a crucial … chamber and orchestral concerts of Jewish music through the Society for the Promotion of Jewish Music (Verein zur …
Pesah Bat Qol Yishama’
… ‘Oz vehadar lebusha.’ He used to retreat to the fields and forests day and night, as instructed by Rabbi Nachman, where … lies in a most unexpected source: the archive of the Iraqi Jewish musician Ezra Aharon (Azuri al-Awwad). A voluminous … Passover Anthology (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1961, p. 287, under the title “Pesach …
Edith Gerson-Kiwi in Tehran (1961): Documents from a Revealing Journey
… Israeli ethnomusicologist Edith Gerson-Kiwi sets the tone for this unique study, published in 1963 in Tel Aviv by the … 1960s. Looking back at her first encounters with Persian Jewish musicians who immigrated to Israel in the late 1940s, … Farabi University, and later became the Head of the Iranian Society of Physics. Barkeshli authored numerous publications …
A Fine Reciprocity
… degree of concentration by means of a generally simple formula, to be repeated over and over again, Abulafia’s … The Hebrew is taken from Sefaria: A Living Library of Jewish Texts Online. [5] Romeo and Juliet was first … Psalms 120–150 . Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society. Bloch, Ariel, and Chana Bloch. 1995. The Song of …
"Evolution of Jewish Music": Discourse Communities and Narrative Construction in the Performance of Music History
… In the four-and-a-half-minute video, the five vocalists perform a rapid-fire series of thirty-six pieces in … two of these spinoff videos, both titled “Evolution of Jewish Music.” The two videos studied here are by Benny … superstar Lipa Schmeltzer’s “Gelt,” a 2003 song criticizing society’s obsession with money, while cleverly playing with …
Ruby (Rivka) Daniel
… Well educated in Malayalam, Hebrew and English, she worked for many years as a clerk in government courts and served in … with the project to collect and study the Malayalam Jewish women’s songs, eventually translating more than 100 … Woman Remembers (Daniel and Johnson, Jewish Publication Society, 1995). Several years later Ruby decided that she …
Rabbi David Buzaglo
… the early twentieth century. Under Attar, Buzaglo became a foremost performer of Andalusian Hebrew music in its … exponentially in the collective memory of the Moroccan Jewish diaspora. [3] After receiving a traditional Jewish … prayers and piyyutim to children at Ne’im Zemirot, a society maintained by the Jewish community of Casablanca. …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… chants, some with words but most without, historically performed primarily by men, either solo or collectively, in a … as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is … style must consider the characteristic features of Hasidic society—the ambiance of each Hasidic court and the …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … and Geistesgeschichte . Jewish Studies in this formulation consisted of the commemoration of a people’s … to recover Jewish culture, economics, politics, and society. Yet something of that texts and tears, martyrs and …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… Avigdor Herzog was one of the founders of modern Jewish music research and documentation in Israel. … in the field of Jewish music were numerous and span for over eight decades in his capacity as performing … to find a place for himself in the post-war Hungarian society, he fulfilled his dream and settled in the …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… Beregovski, Evreiskie narodnye napevy bez slov [ Jewish Tunes without Words , 1946]: This research was … study is an ongoing project and will be updated as new information is gathered. It is part of the JMRC project of … (1886-1945) who was associated with the Saint Petersburg Society of Jewish Folk Music transcribed a faster version of …
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 … Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics makes public a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician … Jewish musicians affiliated with the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music: Lazare Saminski, who praised …


