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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, …
David Conway
… David Conway is an Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College, …
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 …
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: 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim Beinart on the occasion of his seventieth birthday , ed. Aharon … and North African versions in the article entitled “Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient … by Gerson-Kiwi on December 5, 1966 (NSA CD 4981), it is part of a one-hour fascinating detailed account by Hocha of …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… prevented the publication of her dissertation on the art of the Italian madrigal in 1933, she emigrated to Italy … reoriented her research focus from the canon of Western art music to non-Western music, most particularly, the music of religious and ethnic communities …