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Contemporary American Jewish Music
… Contemporary American Jewish Music Chair: Ruth HaCohen Joel E. Rubin, Department of Music, University of Virginia “Redefining what a Jew means … the emphasis has been looking at the same time toward the Eastern European past and the American (and transnational) …
Gesture, Dance and Melody in Traditional Ashkenazi Culture
… Traditional Ashkenazic dance, as it had been practiced in Eastern Europe, featured a confluence of two diverse … expressive dance movement can be correlated to a number of musical parameters involving melodic density, rhythmic structure, musical development and tempo. … 15 … 34706 … Jerusalem … … …
Synagogen Gesänge (Schire Tefilla)
… … 1897 … Cantors - Hazzanim … Synagogue … Synagogue music … Russia … Cantorate … Cantor … Cantorial music … Eastern Ashkenazi … Eliezer Mordecai Ben Isaac Gerovich … …
In Which Direction Do Hebrews Play Music?: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Musical Aesthetics of Zionism
… and Arts Section) In collaboration with the Jewish Music Forum, USA Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s Legacy: Eighty Years after the Publication of Jewish Music in its Historical Development 5.8.09 Respondent: Prof. … music, aesthetics, and Jewish nationalism in fin-de-siecle Eastern Europe, I will explore how Idelsohn understood the …
Contemporary Jewish Music: A New Series of the JMRC (2009)
… Contemporary Jewish Music: A New Series of the JMRC With the release of “Writing FROM Within” (Kulmus HaNefesh), the Jewish Music Research Centre inaugurates a new line of recordings … in Europe, Hajdu focused on the musical traditions of the Eastern European Hassidim residing in Israel. Most notable …
Alexander L. Ringer
… Alexander L. Ringer was an American research musicologist and educator of Dutch and Polish descent. He … 1948 from the New School for Social Research and a Ph.D. of Musicology in 1955 from the City College, Columbia … extensively on romantic era, Western European music; eastern influences on Western music throughout time; the …
Avraham Soltes
… in New York City, to parents who recently arrived from Eastern Europe. His father, Mordechai Soltes had earned a … life: Judica; the struggle in Palestine to forge an Israel; Music, in all shapes and forms. Even as a rabbinical student … and educational activities that interpreted Jewish art, music, and literature. He was chairman of the National …
Esther R. Warkov
… Esther Warkov's seminal contributions to the study of Arab music and Arab-Jewish musicians in Iraq and Israel feature prominently on the JMRC … relied on her skills as a student-performer of Middle Eastern music. She also made a substantial contribution to …
Albert Weisser
… Upon graduating in 1948, he entered the master's program in musicology. Under the guidance of Curt Sachs , he wrote his thesis on 'The Jewish National Music in Russia', which was later published as The Modern Renaissance of Jewish Music: Events and Figures, Eastern Europe and America (1954). He also studied …
Efraim Yaakov
… of Spanish and Yemen Jewry and the history of science among Eastern Jews. He also dealt with the writings of the Hida … and especially recruited people on the subject of the music of the Jews of southern Yemen ... '. Sources (in …