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Eikha yashvah vadad
… a distinguished representative of the last generation of cantors from Baghdad before the mass immigration to Israel. … recordings were made in Jerusalem in 1951 by the pioneering American ethnomusicologist Dr. Johana L. Spector as part of …
Edith Gerson-Kiwi in Tehran (1961): Documents from a Revealing Journey
… that is, outside the dominant European and emergent American centers. Carried out by a German-trained female … from comparative musicology to anthropologically oriented American ethnomusicology in the 1960s. Looking back at her … in the field, biographical information on synagogue cantors in Iran and Israel, and related contact details. The …
"Evolution of Jewish Music": Discourse Communities and Narrative Construction in the Performance of Music History
… In April 2013, Pentatonix, a popular American a cappella ensemble, posted a video on YouTube … understanding the development of the contemporary liberal American Jewish community and the cantorate that it … the question is poignant. As Judah Cohen has explored, cantors are often framed as “vessels of tradition,” an …
Rabbi David Buzaglo
… poet as well as the mentor of an entire generation of cantors and singers of sacred Hebrew poetry centered in … of Casablanca and eventually to the Israeli, French, and American Moroccan Jewish diasporas. Moreover, he dedicated … funded. The Pinto recordings were donated to the Archive of American Folk Song (today the American Folklife Center) at …
Matthew Austerklein
… Matthew Austerklein is an American-trained cantor completing his PhD in Jewish Studies … three books, including the 75th Anniversary Journal of the Cantors Assembly , a broad documentation of living cantors … and historical retrospective on the evolution of the American cantorate. He has also, together with Dr. Jeremiah …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… melodies from eighteenth- and early nineteenth–century cantors’ manuscripts and nigunim, assuming an ongoing … of a liturgical cantorial recitative; on the other hand, cantors used to incorporate rhythmic nigunim in order to … Koskoff, Ellen. 2001. Music in Lubavitcher Life. Music in American Life . Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Lukin, …
Pinchas Borenstein
… father, Yaakov Dov, was a rabbi, and his four sons became cantors. From a young age, Borenstein demonstrated a passion … as the organizer and first president of the Association of Cantors of South America. Beyond his work in the synagogue, … Cantors … Argentina … Cantors - Hazzanim … Poland … American cantors … Opera … Ashkenazi liturgical music … …
Léibele Schwartz
… in 1946. He shared the stage with two Eastern-European born American luminaries of the Yiddish theater, Berta Gersten … vocal ensembles such as the Ensemble Judaica (consisting of cantors Moshe Alon, Teddy Horowitz, Abraham Smirewicz, Oshis … research that deserve more attention. One is the Latin American scene in general, and the large Jewish populations …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… will later become my teacher. The above mentioned cantors had less voice than he, but much sweeter, and their … recommended me to Frommermann, who maintained a school for cantors. He gave me a place in a Bavarian community. Brainin … funds for the 5th and partly for the 6th volume, but the American Council of Learned Societies decided to grant me a …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Palestine, Lithuanian Jewish South Africa, and Midwestern American Reform Judaism. What is missing is a picture of the … 1). Finally, Judah Cohen (2010) has addressed Idelsohn’s American period (1922-1935) in more detail than any previous … and night copying his manuscripts. Father formed a choir of cantors to sing Hebrew songs for records. One day [in 1922] …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… three other recordings of the Aleppo version by prominent cantors from the Aleppine communities in Latin America: … recorded on October 19, 1991. Uri related that the famous American Jewish educator, Dr. Alexander M. Dushkin … classroom encounter. Where, when and from whom this Polish-American Jew could have learned such a song in Arabic ? …
Rabbi Hanna Tiferet Siegel
… Shonna Husbands-Hankin, “ Soul Brothers: A Memoir ”, in American Jewish History , Vol. 100, No. 4, October 2016, … Cantor, Composer … Renewal Judaism … North America … Female cantors … Spirituality … Canadian Jews … Canada … Rabbi …


