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The Idelsohn Project
… days? What is the link between music and nationalism in the modern Jewish imagination? … … These queries form the core … of musical Hebrewism as the basis for the sonic renewal of modern Jewish nationhood, still remains an enigma. This … cultural encounters in Palestine during the late Ottoman period and the early years of the British Mandate; the …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… added to the Haggadah sometime during the late medieval period to vernacular languages is indeed a common practice. … prolific singers we encountered in the ethnography of the modern Hebrew song repertoire in Israel. Levitin, was …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… been attributed with composing “Fog al-Nakhal” during the period that they were performing as popular musicians in … Holden, Stacy E. A Documentary History of Modern Iraq . University Press of Florida: Gainesville, …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… and Oriental pedigree and, to a certain measure, to modern colonial contexts, mostly French-Jewish. Yet, this … only, others much deeper that comprise, in my opinion, a modern development. There are of course aesthetic reasons … in Morocco, many of them had experienced a transitional period in their lives when they moved to Casablanca and, to …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… composition. In the January 1908 issue of the important periodical Ost und West , composer, educator and … nineteenth century, becoming an emblematic signifier of modern Israeli culture. As Mazor has shown in his … of songs associated with the Zionist pioneers of that period. [10] In addition, the first section of this nign is …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… written in the vein of ethnomusicological projects of the period, privileging certain foci over others. It is more … traditional” so common to ethnomusicological work of the period. Gendered issues are not extensively discussed, … 11(2):161-173. Gilroy, Paul, 1993, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness . Cambridge, MA: Harvard …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… community and to the public at large. The historical period under investigation dates from the early 19 th … … The paradigm consists of several elements. First, a modern conceptualization of an endangered “heritage” of solo … taking place within this musical practice as the result of modernity and globalization. A lachrymose attitude to the …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… and had also laid the foundation for what became known as modern Iraqi music. Most of these musicians moved to Israel … Its development was entwined with ideas and processes of modernization. Warkov focused especially on takasim —the … in Israel went into decline, surviving only for a short period after immigration in family gatherings in urban Iraqi …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… expresses the cultural reality experienced by Jews in this period and functioned as “a form and reflection” of Jewish … Mahler also straddles the ground between romanticism and modernism and, following the revival of his oeuvre in the … played a role in Unger’s attempt to situate himself as a modernist, especially in the fairly peripheral context of …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… but at the very latest one can point to the late medieval period. These verses already appear in the very early and … one sees how the allure of Rossi’s Hebrew compositions to modern scholars impacts the perception of his setting of … endows him with an aura of authenticity valued by modern scholars. Undoubtedly, Rossi composed this text …