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The Magical and Theurgic Interpretation of Music in Jewish Sources from the Renaissance to Hassidism (Hebrew)
… be influenced by parallel views in the Florentine Academy. Writers like Johanan Allemanno and Isaac Abrabanel describe …

Idelsohn: The Founder and Builder of the Science of Jewish Music – A Creator of Jewish Song
… of Reform Judaism in the United States, and a prolific writer on Judaica. He was influential in reestablishing …

Idelsohn’s Scholarly and Literary Publications: An Annotated Bibliography
… elicited articles concerning the man and his work from writers the world over. Germany, Holland, Palestine, …

Yemenite Qasīd Songs (Hebrew)
… was over and the Rabbis and honoured guests had left. The writer of this article is in the process of studying twenty …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… Moisés, due to appear in a future volume dedicated to the writer and scholar of Spanish and Sephardic literature, …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… Giuseppe Lidarti (1730-after 1794). Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities …
Nili Belkind
… compiler; live showcase producer; booker; radio DJ; music writer (National Geographic Music Online, liner notes) and …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… The text looks like it had been penned by a professional writer, yet the source of both the text and its melody …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… rehash of the legends by Michael Freedland (1974) the songwriter’s major biographies had to wait for his death. … to add to these in biographical detail. All of these writers, and virtually all of those between Barrett and …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… jazz composition as it emerged from some of the Jewish songwriters of Tin Pan Alley and vaudeville, most notably from …