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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… will be shown below) and are presented to the reader in a modern, annotated edition. A lengthy introduction provides … (Burstyn 2015/16). Indeed, scholars have claimed that modern Hebrew songs were intentionally composed in imagined … manufactured “archaic” styles, so as to circumvent the period of exile and express the return to the ancestral …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… days after the Seventeenth of Tammuz, ending a three weeks’ period of bereavement in the Jewish calendar. For a … adhered to in a regular meter and the set of well-balanced periods corresponds to the poetic stanza.” This … to a rapid diffusion of Jewish liturgical melodies in the modern era. Gershon Efros in his Cantorial Anthology (vol. …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… collections of historical records from the Nahda time, the period of cultural and intellectual “renaissance” that … they imply not only the dissociation of those living in the modern state of Israel from the historical landscape from … legacy of the Nahda as a project of a distinctively Arab modernity (Shannon 2006, 58-66; see also Hanssen & Weiss …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… Lehrer und Kantor , an insert of the Berlin-based periodical Die jüdische Presse . Birnbaum introduces in it … Jewish Music on August 3, 1978, which would launch the very modern phenomenon subsequently labeled the “Jewish Baroque.” … proportions and contextualize it as a phenomenon of Jewish modernity’s drive to create a “normative” historical Jewish …
Moshe Attias
… repertoire also reveals some of the ambivalent aspects of modern Moroccan Jewish identity. Religious zeal intertwines with modern secular practices, while rooted musical and textual … to this story, anti-Semitism was a topic that come up periodically throughout Silver’s conversation with Mwijo and …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness through … both in the Yiddish-speaking world as well as in the modern Hebrew song repertoire in the Land of Israel. I am …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Niggun ‘Akedah , transcribed between 1840 and the Holocaust period, and two recent audio recordings. The Narrative The … accorded the Binding of Isaac a significant role in pre-modern times (Katz 2008). A Yiddish prose adaptation of the … Yet the most outstanding retelling of this story in pre-modern Yiddish literature is the epic poem Yudisher shtam …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… in Tudela, Spain in 1089 and died around 1164. During this period there were wars and vicissitudes in Spain that … formulated among the Babylonian sages during the Talmudic period. [2] Before the havdalah blessings it is customary to … book “Elef zemer ve-‘od zemer,” a practical collection of modern and old Hebrew songs intended for Israeli singing …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… cry”—an octave leap at the opening of a melody—appears in modern Hebrew compositions in which the singing subject … that the harmonic conventions of popular music during the period in which she wrote “Shema’ Koleinu” had an impact on …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… presence of Shofet kol ha’aretz in Ashkenaz in the medieval period, apparently predating its use among Sephardic Jews. … Of course his terminology is a bit uncomfortable to post-modern ears. Categories of authentic and ethnic musical …