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James W. McKinnon
James William McKinnon was an American musicologist most known for his…
Velvel Pasternak
The JMRC mourns the passing of Velvel Pasternak, scholar of Hassidic music and founder…
Neue Aspekte zum strukturellen Zusammenhang zwischen Taame emet und Hebraish- orientalische Psalmodie
The article is based on the writer's MA thesis where he examined the reading of Psalms…
Max Weinreich
Max Weinreich was a Russian Jewish linguist, specializing in …
Simha Arom
A French-Israeli ethnomusicologist who is recognized as a world expert on the music of…
Jacob Gilboa
Erwin Goldberg (later Jacob Gilboa) was born in Czechoslovakia. Some years later he…
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… taste and he gave me also an idea of classic music from the works of Bach, Haendel, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, etc. At the … so permeated by foreign melody; by the fact that all of the works of the great composers of synagogal music were none … government in Germany. This work branched out in other works: Toldot Ha-negginah Ha-‘ivrit (The History of Hebrew …
Ba'al Menagen\ Menagen
The word 'menagen' (menágn in a Yiddish accent) comes from the verb 'nagen,' which in…
Menagen
The word 'menagen' (menágn in Yiddish accent) comes from the verb 'nagen,' which in the…
Marc Lavry
… with a large corpus of oratorios, chamber and orchestral works, popular songs, and theater music. Perhaps his most …