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Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical performance of the three verses. The precious Leo Levi recorded collection of Italian Jewish musical traditions includes four versions of Elohim … Holocaust survivor and cantor in Firenze after World War II, NLI Y 1301, recorded in Firenze on February …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … A lengthy introduction provides ample historical and musical contexts. Karnes did not spare any effort in trying … Aryans is “not to be sought in the southerly reaches of the world” (p. xxvii). This idea is of course a critique of the …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in Berlin, … but also helped to reformulate German musicology after World War II. The latter contribution was mainly made … a growing network of colleagues and peers from around the world. In many cases, those who formed part of this network …
Nili Belkind
… the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University (2014) and is an ethnomusicologist specializing in the Middle East—with a special … working in the US-based music industry. She worked as a world, Latin and reggae music product manager for Virgin …
Clara Wenz
… Clara Wenz is an ethnomusicologist specializing in Middle Eastern music, music and … Berlin 4-5 April 2019. “Tarab in Crisis, Samples of a New World: The Music of Hello Psychaleppo”, ICTM Study Group for the Music in the Arab World Symposium, Cairo Egypt, 7-10 January 2019. “Music, …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … “renaissance” that characterized the Arab-Ottoman world during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. In … centers of the region. In Aleppo, as elsewhere in the Arab world during the Nahda era, Jewish musicians played an …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … held at the Hebrew University, on the occasion of the World Congress of Jewish Music on August 3, 1978, which … and published by Adler, spread to the four corners of the world. Moreover, the discovery (also by Adler) of the Hebrew …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, … and its reception both in the Yiddish-speaking world as well as in the modern Hebrew song repertoire in the … congregations and educational institutions in the USA after World War II muted the original socialist messages and …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … nineteenth century, and remained popular until the Second World War (Schleifer 1996). Yet it appears that some … et al. 1996; Langer 1998, 182–85) and few synagogues in the world today recite ‘Akedah piyyutim , let alone according to …
Eduard Birnbaum - a Bibliography
… scholarly work is well known to every student of Jewish music. I was privileged to belong to the team that … to his article on the Birnbaum collection of Jewish music (see item no. 66 in our bibliography) and Alfred … musical compositions for the synagogue, was interrupted by World War II (see Davidsohn's article, no. 67 of the …