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Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… on to later generations. In the midst of these societal changes, Alicia’s dedication to the memory of the songs of …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… (white Jews and others). Therefore, in the very same exchange between Smith and Shaw (to my mind, the both of them … for the first jazz opera, but something persuaded him to change the subject to African Americans of South Carolina in …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… traditions within it. Warkov wanted to study processes of change and acculturation in musical practice, and the Iraqi … primary methodological tools for assessing processes of change and acculturation within musical practice was through … Jewish musicians in Iraq had always been agents of change, exchanging ideas with visiting Egyptian and Iranian …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… (“and also you will be blessed”), perhaps an impromptu change by the cantor honoring his guest, Leo Levi: שדי …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… by Melngailis ( Zemereshet #2625 ) was recorded with small changes by various interlocutors such as Shulamit Rosenfeld, … in both transcriptions two more times: mm. 3–4 without change, then mm. 5–6 with a higher and open ending. This is …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… significance here: the letters were written and exchanged over a time span ranging from the National Socialist … since the early 1950s. Numerous letters that Gerson-Kiwi exchanged with her German and Swiss colleagues addressing the … to Palestine / Israel. They also highlight the processes of change that her new life and experiences in Western Asia …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… the text of “She’eh ne’esar” underwent may alterations and changes in the Ashkenazi sources. Amendments already appear …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… landscape of cross-territorial and Arab-Jewish musical exchange. This exchange was mainly facilitated by travelling musicians and … Beirut, Damascus and Aleppo, thereby facilitating the exchange of Egyptian ṭaqatiq (sing. ṭaqṭuqah ) and Aleppian q …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… – the history of Jewish worship – which seems to have changed over time and vary between communities. We know that … and consider that cultural meaning of a musical idiom may change over time; as Idelsohn writes, [I]t is impossible and … vast geographical area; on the other hand, it reflects the changes that this melody apparently underwent, particularly …
The Music and its Function in the Singing of the Qasīd anda birabbī dī kalaq (Hebrew)
… In most cases the literary form of the first two poems is changed in a very particular way by the singer. Such a change occurs in the poem aAbda’ birabbi di kalaq as sung …