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Bernardo Feuer
… especially of Feuer’s father. Feuer continued his studies for a brief period in Warsaw, though his family does not … exclusively synagogue material and included arrangements of Jewish folk songs, choral parts of operas in the original … provinces. He was an ad honorem advisor to the Hazzanim Society of Argentina and enjoyed respect and recognition …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… to Niggun ‘Akedah. It will assess their thematic content, formal aspects, as well as their cultural contexts and … Yiẓḥak , or ‘Akedah ) has assumed an important function in Jewish religion and culture since Antiquity. This renowned … Yudisher shtam enjoyed immense popularity in Ashkenazi society, as is evidenced by the relatively large number of …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… Studying songs for Passover offers us a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern … several editions (from 1946 onwards, by the David Edelstadt Society founded in that city). Neil Levin characterized …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the … Uri Wertheim, with Mwijo. We are thankful to Dr. Silver for his permission to draw from his text. Our thanks also to … contribution of immigrant Russian “engineers” to Israeli society. Whatever position one assumes in respect to this …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… carefully stored in the shelves of the Lebanese Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research (AMAR). Located in the … made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long … production, but equally by the processes through which society marks them. [8] The general idea is that a …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… “From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” is a … Berlin School of Comparative Musicology. Lachmann was also forced to leave Germany in 1936 and settled in Jerusalem. … life-achievements: a woman and a scientist in a patriarchal society in the Middle East, an intellectual interfacing …
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 …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to … conceived not only as a ritual space but also as a location for the symbolic public display, through the language of … intersections between Jews with the surrounding Christian society, and of marking of communal and regional …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… volunteer in Meseret , a center that supported traditional Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and … taught Hebrew, supported in their first steps in the host society and also, inculcated with hegemonic values of … baskets and pottery to be fired at the kiln and put up for sale, and a traditional music and dance troupe . Also …
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 …