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The Badkhn in Contemporary Hasidic Society: Social, Historical and Musical Observations
This article is a revised English version of an article by the same name in Hebrew,…
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
The album includes folksongs in Ladino that Sephardic Jews used to sing in events of the…
Mordkhe Shekhter
Itsye Mordkhe Shekhter was born on December 1927, in Czernowitz, Ukraine. He descended…
Bessie Schonberg
Bessie Schönberg was born in Hanover, Germany in December 1906, the youngest of three…
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
In 1958, on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk…
Jüdische Volksmusik: Eine mitteleuropäische Geistesgeschichte
A selection of writings by scholars and folklorists, mostly of introductions to Jewish…
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
This article shows the crystallization of the prayer and singing style known as “…
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
If you have ever searched for Hatikvah online, you were surely exposed to a barrage of…
Cross-Repertoire Motifs in Liturgical Music of the Ashkenazi Tradition: An Initial Lay of the Land
The earlier version, entitled “Cross-Repertoire Motifs in the Liturgical Music of…