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Arbie Orenstein
Arbie Orenstein was born and raised in New York City, he attended the High School of…
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…
Vantsef (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Yonatan Malin
Yonatan Malin is Associate Professor in the University of Colorado Boulder College of…
Moritz Rosenhaupt
By Edwin Seroussi
German cantor and composer Moritz/Moses Rosenhaput was born (see…
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
Introduction
Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other…
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac,…
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
In 1979 Esther Warkov, a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came…