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«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, the composer Solomon Rosowsky published a short … in which he recalled a joke from his student days a half century earlier: [1] “Why are there so many Jewish students … for Jewish musical achievement that circulated in the early twentieth century actually took on a life of their own, …
Doyne (LKT)
… and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … of klezmorim [plural of klezmer ] throughout this century. Although the doina is quintessentially identified … Jews from Romania and the southern Ukraine, by the early twentieth century it had achieved currency among klezmorim …
Taksim (LKT)
… and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … played doinas instead of taksims since the beginning of the twentieth century; in addition to the fiddler, the clarinet or flute …
Longa (LKT)
… and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … Rumeynisher Fantazi #1-4 in the early years of the Twentieth Century in Poland.” Phillips 1996a, pp. 164-165 . (Musical …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali Herz Imber’s poem … national sentiment in the first two decades of the 20 th century. At the same time, the opposition to Hatikvah on … was the engine that activated during the first half of the twentieth century the need for speculations in order to find …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… songbooks and collections from the first half of the twentieth century there are many such commonplace songs. Some of them … (if controversial) leaders of American Jewry in the twentieth century, must have had a deep impact on Binder’s …
Assaf Shelleg
… Musicologist and pianist Assaf Shelleg is senior lecturer of … Louis (2009–2011). Shelleg specializes in art music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (historical musicology, … music in Central and Western Europe in the early twentieth century and its partial dislocation to Palestine/Israel in …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … for 'Shema' Koleinu' written by Ashkenazi composers in the twentieth century are in the minor key and its modal derivatives, such …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… from B’nai Jeshrun: http://www.bj.org/spiritual-life/music-of-bj/invitation-to-piyyut-na/el-eliyahu/ Literary … singer. [10] , Similar to many Jews from Cairo in the twentieth century, it is reasonable to assume that this informant …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… Cod. Parm. 1912 (De Rossi 697), which is dated to the 15 th century in Germany or France. The song is in fol. 21a-b and … and its documentation are therefore formidable. However, musical renditions of the piyyut are rather rare and will be … yeini has been documented since the beginning of the twentieth century in Palestine or in connection to Zionist …