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Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, … University, an eminent scholar of music in the Islamic world and of the Jewish musical traditions within it. Warkov … (2003) book, Tarab . This music developed in urban centers beginning in the 1920s, primarily in Cairo but also in …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… done for most of the other half they did not identify. Awareness of Baltic Jewish culture has not been altogether … Aryans is “not to be sought in the southerly reaches of the world” (p. xxvii). This idea is of course a critique of the … to the wide spread of the song. The sung text is only the beginning of a long piyyut of unknown source. The entire …
Clara Wenz
… My Journey with an Arab-Jewish Baidaphon Record”, Workshop Beginnings and Legacies of Recording Technologies in the … Berlin 4-5 April 2019. “Tarab in Crisis, Samples of a New World: The Music of Hello Psychaleppo”, ICTM Study Group for … UK, 20-23 April 2017. “Listening to Arab-Jewish Aleppo: Towards an Architecture of Musical Memory”, International …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… the Middle East during the phonograph era; [1] from here onwards, I will refer to this record as “the famous record”. … “renaissance” that characterized the Arab-Ottoman world during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. In … its original source “the famous record,” constituted the beginning of this biography. Networks, Objects, Agents In …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… the anti-Jewish persecutions which occurred from 1096 onwards often mention the Binding of Isaac. At times they … The text underlay is very unclear, providing only the beginning of the lines. We reconstructed the remainder of … nineteenth century, and remained popular until the Second World War (Schleifer 1996). Yet it appears that some …
The Magical and Theurgic Interpretation of Music in Jewish Sources from the Renaissance to Hassidism (Hebrew)
… by singing and playing one can influence the extra-divine world. From the beginning of the 16th century onwards, Jewish Kabbalists frequently wrote about the …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… now widely practiced in Ashkenazi congregations around the world. There are six sets of melodies or “modes” in the … and focal pitches, but whereas Haftarah trope reaches upward with gestures of yearning, High Holiday trope remains … a relatively simple verse from Isaiah (40:27); this is the beginning of the Haftarah for the parashah (weekly Torah …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… personal commitment to Zionism. Only two years after beginning his work with Wise, Binder travelled to Palestine … If it is intentional, perhaps this is a nod from Binder towards an earlier version of the melody, perhaps one sung … and Jews.” At once providing the listener a feeling of “Old World authenticity” and, through the fantastic arrangement …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… “up-to-date” nor “revolutionary,” runs nowadays as a world tour . Baltsan’s text not only fails to acknowledge … attempt to annihilate that very same community during World War II. And, understandably, it offers, by means of a … that is sung today in all the Jewish communities. At the beginning, neither the song nor the melody [of Hatikvah ] …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… part of the Ottoman Empire from the 16 th century until the beginning of the 20 th century. These regions included … repertoire and of other Eastern communities around the world. Not only a poet, he was very active in teaching the … Arabic singers were adopted first for piyyutim , and afterward were used for prayers and utilized in places where the …