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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… The introduction offers English readers a survey of Jewish culture in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, … of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of the cultural life of Jews in Latvia, with emphasis on their … the part of Latvia where many Jews lived) “the language of culture and commerce had been German since the Middle Ages …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… she was also active in the promotion of multi-cultural music programs within the educational system of … musicology and Jewish music, and a mediator between German culture and scholarship and the nascent Israeli Jewish … second half of the 19 th century, music was examined cross-culturally using a variety of experimental methods drawing …
Nili Belkind
… 2021) studies the complex relationship of musical culture to political life in Palestine-Israel. In the … underpinned by the ways in which music is used to culturally assert or reterritorialize spatial and social … the construction of diasporic imaginations (2016; 2024); cultural intimacy across ethnonational conflict (2021); …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… there is a “shortage” of short syllables, making it difficult to fully justify a clear and stable hazaj . The … Pescador. The elegant analysis by Avenary presents difficulties. First among these is the AAB form. Sulzer set the …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… of historical records from the Nahda time, the period of cultural and intellectual “renaissance” that characterized … song’s historical roots (in Aleppo) but its contemporary cultural and socio-political interpretation. Put … ‘ages’ or periods in the thing’s ‘life,’ and what are the cultural markers for them?” (Kopytoff 1986, 66-67). In …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… that musical diversity is the natural state of Jewish culture. Lidarti’s setting was a case exemplifying this … music with Hebrew sacred texts “elevates” Jewish musical culture, and introduced the Jews to the mainstream European … manuscript, arranged this time by Dr. Alon Schab, senior faculty member of the University of Haifa. They included items …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… Gözlem Gazetcilik Basin ve Yayin, Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Culture Research Center, 2009. (Book, 5 CDs and DVD) The … function. Regarding which version came first: this is difficult to determine. There is a wealth of sources related to …
Moshe Attias
… ethos of the Zionist movement and the Israeli culture that emerged from it. Even when he recorded in … Mwijo up until his passing challenges narratives of forced cultural erasure by an aggressive Ashkenazi-dominated … women was but one topic related to this charged ethnic and cultural encounter from the 1990s, generated diverse and …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… dimensions. The song shows how in the modern period Jewish cultural memory is refracted anew through secular prisms and … them had immigrated. Against the paradigm whereas Yiddish culture had a “one-way” circulation, from the Old to the New … of Settlement. Songs were an integral component of this cultural commerce. Proletarian protest songs written in New …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… , and notwithstanding recent publications of intricate cultural-historical scholarship concerning the Binding of … great significance of the ‘Akedah narrative in Ashkenazi culture, as expressed through the poems that were sung to … their thematic content, formal aspects, as well as their cultural contexts and functions. Special attention will be …