… The collection of essays Mein Weg zur jüdischen Musik (My Path to Jewish Music), published in Vienna in 1935 by … heal the fragmented soul of a people estranged from its own history. These writings also reveal his growing enthusiasm …

… This article is accompanied by the playlist  Edith Gerson Kiwi’s Recordings of Musical … 1960s. Looking back at her first encounters with Persian Jewish musicians who immigrated to Israel in the late 1940s, … in Music” Conference (Jerusalem, 1963) , a landmark in the history of music research in Israel, were planted therefore …

… posted a video on YouTube titled “Evolution of Music.” In the four-and-a-half-minute video, the five vocalists perform … two of these spinoff videos, both titled “Evolution of Jewish Music.” The two videos studied here are by Benny … clear, I understand these videos as discourses on the history of Jewish music and take their publication as an …

… Introduction On the morning of October 7, 2023—Simchat Torah, a holiday … in the late twentieth century to choreograph not only history but affect. A key precedent is the Vietnam Veterans … linkage, situating Nova within a broader arc of Jewish suffering and resilience. For others—particularly …

… Rabbi David Buzaglo is one of their most iconic twentieth-century Moroccan Jews. The … exponentially in the collective memory of the Moroccan Jewish diaspora. [3] After receiving a traditional Jewish … Twentieth Century,” Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History 22 (2022): 78–108. [5] See Joseph Chetrit, “L’oeuvre …

… Tish-nigunim in the Post-vernacular Era This study aims to trace the unique … as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is … of this conceptualization to the study of the cultural history of eastern-European Jews (ibid., 82–110). The …

… renowned for her significant contributions to dance and theater in Israel. Her works, deeply rooted in Jewish and Yemenite traditions, significantly shaped … mark on Israeli culture, making her a pivotal figure in the history of Israeli performing arts. Her artistic vision and …

… Sana'a in 1922 to Abraham Khobara and Yonah (Khamama) from the Beit Halevi family. In 1930, when she was eight years … Conversations of a Yemenite Blacksmith” ( The Yemenites: History, Communal Organization, Spiritual Life , ed. Menahem … scholarly education, an unusual feature for young Yemenite Jewish girls at the time. Sarah was exposed to the …

… Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … because they loved to show their emotions through song, dance and gesturing with their hands. Father stood by his …

… study of El yivneh ha-galil would fill an entire chapter in the history of the Jewish song (Seroussi 2010).  Different tunes, variations of …

… You can listen to all the recordings in this article as a  playlist .  I spent the … volunteer in Meseret , a center that supported traditional Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and … the qessim ’s authority. … Questions about the origins, history and (pre-halakhic) Judaism of Beta Israel had also …

… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in … came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked … who maintained a living connection to the tradition. History, however, proved her wrong. Starting in the 1990s, …