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Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… as a given Berlin’s permanent place in the pantheon of American song, if not song in general. It's now 30 years … these ethnic ditties but in the production of inclusively American songs – songs whose appeal could extend across the many components of American society. As scholars including Charles Hamm have …
Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… by Prof. Edwin Seroussi on December 13, 2020 as part of a American Friends of the Hebrew University program, examines …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… the memory of this remarkable Sarajevo-born Sephardic-American artist. Jagoda, slightly later in her life, became … folk performers of traditional Sephardic songs within the American scene. Eventually she became an international …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century completes an American klezmer trilogy of sorts, alongside Hankus Netsky’s …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… written an informative and penetrating history of Jews in American jazz music, which should become a first stop for … great stride pianist Willie “The Lion” Smith, an African-American, starts an enthusiastic conversation with … the career of Smith mostly in a chapter about the African-American appropriation of Jewish songs and themes, as though …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Librarian and Director of the Archive of Folk Song at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress, about …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… and Chaim Rosen, 1994, “Ethiopian Jews in Israel.” The American Jewish Year Book 94:59-109. Kaufman Shelemay, Kay, …
Curt Sachs
… Sachs (1881-1959): A Memorial Address'. Journal of the American Musicological Society 11, No. 1 ( 1958): 1-5. … Folk Music Council 12 (1960): 88–89. (in French) … American musicologist of German birth, founders of modern organology … Musicologist … German Jews … American … organologist … Curt Sachs …
Pete Sokolow
… dedicated to the music of Dave Tarras . Biography from The American Folklife Center . Interviews with Pete Sokolow: … and klezmer pianist … Klezmer … Klezmer musicians … Jazz … American Klezmer Music … Yiddish … Dave Tarras … Pete Sokolow …