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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis … 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 …
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 … identity. In fact, they comprise a refrain dividing the song into “strophes,” a peculiar feature discussed widely in … the liturgist who set this passage noticed that verse 15 departed too much from the pattern of the other three verses, …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… show, among many other matters, that widely popular songs from the turn of the 20th century are absent from late … 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 …
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 … rehash of the legends by Michael Freedland (1974) the songwriter’s major biographies had to wait for his death. … songs on the radio. But a little research on my own part, asking friends and acquaintances around the world (120 …
Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… This Song of the Month for Hanukkah, in video lecture format, … 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)
… 25 … Back in 2008 we dedicated our Song of the Month to the popular piyyut “Purim, Purim, Purim … 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. …
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 … piyyutim (religious poems), Shirei Israel be-Eretz Haqedem “Songs of Israel in the East,” together with Binyamin Bekhar …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… analysis of the composition, and an extensive biographical article. Racheli Galay , cello Amit Weiner , piano Recorded … Centre … Contemporary Jewish Music … 6 … 2020 … Folk songs … Joachim Stutschewsky … Cello - Violoncello … Klezmer …
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 … chapter about the African-American appropriation of Jewish songs and themes, as though Smith had not been a Jew. If not …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… life, she treasured within her memory the Judeo-Spanish songs of the North Moroccan Sephardic community, playing a … 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 …