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Ben-Zion (Yisrael Noach) Kapov-Kagan
… In the United States, he served as hazzan at the Ocean Parkway Jewish Center in New York, and subsequently at the …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… the Seventeenth of Tammuz, a fast day in Jewish tradition marking the breach of Jerusalem’s fortifications leading to … poetical creativity as the Ninth of Av, the fast day marking the fall of the Jerusalem Temple which occurs … Heard: The Sacred Song of the Ashkenazic Jews (University Park and London, 1976, pp. 100-101) quoting Idelsohn's work …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… raised by the performance by Mr. Hocha, here are some remarks about this notable cantor. Nehemiah Hocha, cantor and … more akin to the Western Sephardi versions, whose trademark is the refrain “Avi, avi”, the Aleppo version is …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… (Bugatch 1961, 129). I suspect this “tuneful if unremarkable” melody (in Karnes’s words) might be related to the … did not know the Latvian language. [2] I thank the Mark Lavry Heritage Society for that information. [3] While …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… documentation of the three verses of Psalm 80 is highly remarkable if we consider their relatively secondary liturgical … (1924-2012), a Holocaust survivor from Salonica, is remarkable for its rarity. [1] Your browser does not support … a version of the melody for the Psalm 80 verses that is remarkably similar to the three Italian versions recorded by …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… aspirations of a German-Jewish conductor with the music market of post-World War II and the north-American cultural … must rise above comparisons with conductors who left their mark on the international stage and situate Unger at the …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… like Berlin could also prosper. Berlin’s two great marketing coups in organizing army shows in the two world …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… humble Song of the Month celebrates the memory of this remarkable Sarajevo-born Sephardic-American artist. Jagoda, … slightly later in her life, became one of the most remarkable folk performers of traditional Sephardic songs … song as “traditional among the Jews of Turkey. ' From the marketing strategy of the song by Zaragoza, rereleased in …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, … Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked under the direction of Prof. Amnon Shiloah of … world and of the Jewish musical traditions within it. Warkov wanted to study processes of change and acculturation …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… and suggests stylistic periods that emerged as a result of marketing, technological innovation, changing repertoire, and … defining musical style, stands beside Netsky, Feldman, and Mark Slobin’s work as a classic of its discipline, further …