… he recalled a joke from his student days a half century earlier: [1]  “Why are there so many Jewish students at the … The statistical disparity effectively meant that nearly one in every three Jewish university-level students in … for Jewish musical achievement that circulated in the early twentieth century actually took on a life of their …

… David Nowakowsky was born in Malin, Russia near Kiev. Nowakowsky left home at an early age and moved to Berditchev where he was recruited as … local choral Synagogue. While in Berditchev, Nowakowsky learned harmony and counterpoint and studied the cantorial …

… Venezia), and they are all from Salonica. The melody appears in a musical transcription by Idelsohn ( 1923 , no. … it as “Turkish, known in Jerusalem”), whose model appears in several other Sephardic songs (e.g. Venturoso … with “Conğa mía, conğa mía, / chichek de mi cabeza” and appearing in commercial recordings have a different melody …

… 5 Melody of children's parody of "E h ad mi yodea as it appeared in Platon Brounoff's 1911 collection Brounoff 1911.pdf … H ad gadya ”, also a cumulative song. “E h ad mi yodea” appears, apparently for the first time, as a manuscript … in 1526/7 found at the National Library of Israel . It appeared in print for the first time in the 1590 Prague …

… 2014-2016; 2019-2020), was Director of the Jewish Music Research Centre from 2000 to 2023, and established and directed … College in New Hampshire, USA. Prof. Seroussi’s research focuses on the sacred and secular musical cultures of … and the Judeo-Spanish-speaking diaspora. His approach to research stresses the agency of individuals in the shaping of …

… activities. Reiner’s compositional output during these years was substantial; he completed works for orchestra, … in a number of international music journals.  During the early postwar years, Reiner focused his attention on composing songs with …

Malcolm James McCormick known professionally as Mac Miller. He was born to a Jewish…

… 1987, #210-16 . ( Musical notation included).  “Recent research with Gypsy musicians from Transylvania (Romania) has … Tentsl but does not include the middle section. He recalls hearing it played in the 1910s by klezmorim from the East …

… the selection of informants in ethnomusicological research is necessarily haphazard. Yet, without a clear idea of who your informants are it is difficult to … of the network of social communication, and this appears -at least so far- to vary from culture to culture. Thus …

… works at a time when that Zeitgeist was at its peak in the early 1950's, Tal became known as the pioneer of electronic … obviously the composer himself, hence a key work of the 85-year-old composer. A major event with considerable reception, … opera was premiered as a final celebration of the first year of the New Israel Opera in its new Tel-Aviv house, June …