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Dan Deutsch
… Deutsch is currently 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 … early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … songs on the radio. But a little research on my own part, asking friends and acquaintances around the world (120 …
David Conway
… David Conway is an Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College, … Studies in 2019-20. His publications include Jewry in Music: Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to … opera company HGO. (Photo credit: Smerus ) … British music historian … David Conway …
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, … Prof. Seroussi offers a master class on contemporary Jewish music scholarship and methodology. … Hanukkah … Chanukkah …
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. … patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. Purim, Purim Lanu (Ladino …
Moshe Cordova
… m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … 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 …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of … 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 …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… glad to launch the sixth volume in the Contemporary Jewish Music series, 13 Jewish Folk Tunes, an online … downloadable program notes on the genesis of this work, musical analysis of the composition, and an extensive biographical article. Racheli Galay , cello Amit Weiner , piano Recorded …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras . Syracuse: … 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 …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… and penetrating history of Jews in American jazz music, which should become a first stop for those wishing to … pianist Willie “The Lion” Smith, an African-American, starts an enthusiastic conversation with bandleader Artie Shaw about Judaism. Although Shaw was a white …