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Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov, a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of … Israel in the early 1950s, part of the Jewish exodus from Arab lands, which had become largely inhospitable to Jewish … the Israeli Broadcast Authority (IBA)—supported an Arabic music orchestra on its ‘Voice of Israel in Arabic’ …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … that Chetrit transcribed for his research on Judeo-Arabic poetry from Morocco. For now, Silver comments, only … remained constant, and it is his allegiance to Maghrebi Arabic, with a Meknesi accent, as the main language of …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … stored in the shelves of the Lebanese Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research (AMAR). Located in the … and intellectual “renaissance” that characterized the Arab-Ottoman world during the nineteenth and early twentieth …
Clara Wenz
… Clara Wenz is an ethnomusicologist specializing in Middle Eastern music, music and … Borders and Landscapes Lost to Conflict: My Journey with an Arab-Jewish Baidaphon Record”, Workshop Beginnings and … Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin 4-5 April 2019. “Tarab in Crisis, Samples of a New World: The Music of Hello …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new … and stems from the adoption by Iberian Hebrew poets of the Arabic system of scansion. One of the masters of this then … is complicated. Avenary claimed that it is in the hazaj Arabic meter (u---, u---), which was adapted for widespread …
Nili Belkind
… Dr. Nili Belkind is an ethnomusicologist whose specialty areas include the Middle East and the Caribbean. Her upcoming book Music in Conflict: Palestine, Israel and the Politics of … in the context of the conflict and binary perceptions of Arab/Palestinian and Jewish/Israeli. Nili’s M.A. thesis …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … among various communities, there seems to be an underlying musical structure tying together all the documented versions … language of the Kurdish Jews), Kurmanji, Hebrew and Arabic. He was a sought-after musician, faithfully …
Moshe Cordova
… m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … career as a synagogue singer and composer. Parallel to his musical career he developed a business in the field of … the case of the Turkish Jews in Israel, the predominance of Arabic music styles (Middle Eastern or Maghrebi ones) in …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of … Israel in the early 1950s, part of the Jewish exodus from Arab lands, which had become largely inhospitable to Jewish … the Israeli Broadcast Authority (IBA) —supported an Arabic music orchestra on its ‘Voice of Israel in Arabic’ …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras . Syracuse: … trilogy of sorts, alongside Hankus Netsky’s Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth Century Jewish Philadelphia … Rice and Ali Jihad Racy’s efforts to theorize Bulgarian and Arabic music performances respectively). While his framing …