(1324 results found)
Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s Legacy
… culture. Scholars of Hebrew literature have focused particular attention on the role of literary translation and … no doubt a result of ardent national consciousness on his part, as well as sheer intellectual curiosity. The paper will …
Ashkenazic and Italian Liturgy
… Jews who settled in the Italian Peninsula, is still at a starting point. The pioneering fieldwork by Leo Levi … as a dynamic area of cultural interaction. Ruth HaCohen, Department of Musicology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem …
Contemporary American Jewish Music
… American Jewish Music Chair: Ruth HaCohen Joel E. Rubin, Department of Music, University of Virginia “Redefining what a … the past thirty years, as well as an examination of their artistic output, I trace an aesthetic shift away from the … (and transnational) future. The responses ranged from unearthing earlier and less known repertoires, to the creation …
Bloch: Known and Unknown
… how Bloch’s pursuit of the universal through the ‘racially particular’ was an outcome of a complex response to Wagnerian … racial-musical theory via the intermediary of Houston Stuart Chamberlain and his French translator Godet. Yet there … interpretation in the Modernist and Post-Modern eras with particular reference to his Jewish works. I also consider how …
The Jewish Bloch
… situation, his works still managed to create within parts of European public a vision of 'Jewish-Hebrew nation', … Valentine Professor of Music, Amherst College, Music Department Testing the Limits of the Human Universal: Ernest … was trapped in the inescapable racial framework in which art was created and understood in the first half of the …
Documenting and Performing Ashkenazi Music
… works: a critical review on Musikalischer Pinkos and an article on multilingual Jewish songs. The review stated … the methods of collecting Jewish folk music heritage. The article contained analysis of multilingual Jewish songs, the … majority of which were connected with religious themes. The article also included an attachment of 36 songs collected by …
Jewish Identities and Ideologies in Music
… with prevailing trends in Zionist ideology; and how, in particular, Lachmann’s scholarly vision and methods were … and their unusual data on Jewish-Christian relations, particularly as they concern the unrelenting pressure brought …
Between Israeli and Jewish in Music
… situation has deeply divided the Ethiopian community. Part of it chose to abandon its traditions in favour of … religious services in neighbourhood synagogues. Another part chose to remain faithful to the ritual practices of its … in the construction of large prayer houses in different parts of the country. More recently, a new trend, led by a …
Is Israeli Art Music Jewish?
… Jewish music itself—many of the founders of Israeli art music stayed away from what they considered as Jewish … prescriptive definitions of Israeli music, Boskovich, Partos, Seter, and Tal succeeded in convincing musicologists … been among the firsts) incorporated the study of Israeli art music as a part of Jewish music, and only recently the …
Shevirath ha-kelim: The breaking of the vessel
… The work was commissioned by the National Jewish Musical Art Foundation for the fiftieth anniversary of …