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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… from Melngailis’s collection (nos. 65 and 74). Melngailis started collecting Jewish songs in 1899 in Keidan (Lithuania), … considered lost, were retrieved by Karnes (apparently only partially, as will be shown below) and are presented to the … the Baltic provinces” and in Kurland (Courland, the part of Latvia where many Jews lived) “the language of …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… (“customs” or “traditions”) once the printing press started to produce prayer books in rapidly increasing numbers … the liturgist who set this passage noticed that verse 15 departed too much from the pattern of the other three verses, … sung to a different melody but is apparently an integral part of the liturgical section. As one can hear, in spite of …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… Sephardic singers of Salonica. It was still mentioned in an article in the Ladino journal El Mesajero (Salonica, 1939) … such as the transformation of the Turkish “ya yürek” (oh, heart) to “ya Yuri” (Yuri being the name of the groom) and the … “Voices of Vitiz” (of the Bulgarian Academy for Performing Arts) conducted by Roumen Tsonev in the CD Jewish Songs from …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… historical knowledge while assuming a distinction between particular agencies and general historical trajectories. … interest, it also aspires to commemorate a forgotten artist. Justifiably or not, Unger did not gain international … his lifetime. According to Tesler-Mabé, neglecting Unger’s artistic achievements is a historical wrong that should be …
Dan Deutsch
… an Azrieli postdoctoral fellow in the Musicology Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He earned … music against the backdrop of his social status as part of a Jewish minority. In his current research, he …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… obsessed with copyrights, refused permissions to third parties even to cite a few words from his lyrics. As a … songs on the radio. But a little research on my own part, asking friends and acquaintances around the world (120 … phrase Kaplan singles out as “modernism on the hoof: startlingly formal innovation smuggled into a seemingly banal …
David Conway
… David Conway is an Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College, …
Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… presented by Prof. Edwin Seroussi on December 13, 2020 as part of a American Friends of the Hebrew University program, …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… for us”) by Yosef Shalom Gallego. Born in Saloniki (then part of the Ottoman Empire) in the last third of the … style of religious Hebrew song, which had developed starting in the sixteenth century in the Ottoman Empire. … memory of this remarkable Sarajevo-born Sephardic-American artist. Jagoda, slightly later in her life, became one of …
Moshe Cordova
… the early twentieth century, Jewish singers from various quarters of Istanbul, as well as from various cities of the … France, and later South America. Cordova and Algazi became partners during these years, and recorded Ottoman Hebrew … music commercially, some of which is presented in this article. Cordova, like Algazi and most of the leading …