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German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… German-Jewish paradigm as it crystalized since the second quarter of the 19 th century mainly in Vienna, Berlin and … older improvised Ashkenazi forms of choral accompaniment), partially based on traditional tunes or consisting of … innovation. Third, the use of instrumental music, most particularly the organ was a subject that resulted in …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… collection continue to this day, three decades after it started. The Jewish Music Research Centre (JMRC) is one of the … Kyiv collection for the benefit of the wider scholarly and artistic communities and the broader public. The present … the post-Soviet period. Had Adler read Zachary Baker’s 1992 article on the Jewish collections in Kyiv, he would have …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… a persistent relationality. These covert connections were partly renewed in the twenty-first century thanks to digital …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… daily calls to prayer within the streets of the Jewish Quarter. During her youth, she was surrounded by the women’s … these songs publicly. Rather, this repertoire remained part of the fabric of familial and communal life, transmitted …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… between aging players and enthusiastic young musicians starting around the 1970s. Beginning with an archive of 78 rpm … scholarly careers. Which may explain why his book, which started as a dissertation, tends to read like a better-written … before the mid-late nineteenth century, but a necessary part of the klezmer discourse, and used here as foundation …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… pianist Willie “The Lion” Smith, an African-American, starts an enthusiastic conversation with bandleader Artie Shaw about Judaism. Although Shaw was a white … away, one sees that the only means of authenticating Artie Shaw as Jewish, and Willie “The Lion” Smith as not …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… analysis of the composition, and an extensive biographical article. Racheli Galay , cello Amit Weiner , piano Recorded …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… of these musicians moved to Israel in the early 1950s, part of the Jewish exodus from Arab lands, which had become … beyond. Some of these young masters would become important artists of the highest caliber, in Israel and … among its cadre of regular musicians. This was clearly part of the IBA’s cultural policy following Israel’s …
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 …
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 …