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Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of … Due to pressures toward homogenization under a burgeoning Israeli national culture, the Judeo-Spanish songs of …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. … and marginalized by mainstream (Western-oriented) Israeli culture. Only one Israeli institution— the Israeli …
Moshe Cordova
… 1881 – d. Tel Aviv, Israel, 22.12.1965) was a master of the Turkish ma ka m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge about Cordova’s early … Italian monarchy. They named their congregation Comunità Israelitico-Straniera di Rito Spagnuolo-Portoghese di …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… into several minhagim (“customs” or “traditions”) once the printing press started to produce prayer books in rapidly increasing numbers to satisfy the expanding demand. Many unique liturgical passages, whose … hazzan Azelio Servi: A quote from the journal Il Vessillo Israelitico LXX/1922 (XIX-XX), 297: PITIGLIANO […] Oltre …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis collection . Middleton WI: A-R … publication was planned as a collaboration with the late Israeli musicologist of Latvian origin Joachim Braun (Bar …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… 2 … 712 … “Bore ‘ad ana” (“Creator until when?”) is one of the most ubiquitous qinot (dirges) in the order of prayers for the Ninth of Av among the Sephardic … Hebrew Bible contest and in 1964, Hocha went on to win the Israeli Hebrew Bible contest (see above his picture with …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Edith Gerson-Kiwi (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in … Leipzig, Heidelberg, Freiburg i. Br. and Paris. When the National Socialists prevented the publication of her …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… … 714 … In his pioneer publication Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new bar in the musicological study of the piyyut . His insights on a … in this text. Indeed, as part of his acerbic approach to Israeli musicology in general and to the work of Avenary in …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… in a car, driving on a mountain road that winds down along the Lebanese coastline, overlooking the Mediterranean seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a … essentially immobile and inaccessible to many, especially Israeli Jews; second, the famous record’s copy on my mobile …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… On March 15, 1899, the distinguished scholar, cantor, composer and avid … erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , an insert of the Berlin-based periodical Die jüdische Presse . Birnbaum …