… month is I'm sorry, It’s Yom Kippur by the Brooklyn based band Schmekel (Yiddish for a small penis). The band comprises four members, Lucian Kahn (vocals and guitar), … links to most of the press written about them, interviews, contact information and a link to purchase their album …

… … Popular songs … Cult … Model songs (shirei dugma) … Cultural contact and exchange … Sephardi … רבקה הבסי … שירי-הזמר בלאדינו של …

… as Salim Ha-Cohen) was a qari al-maqam (“ maqam reader ”) and highly regarded for his renditions of al-maqam al-‘Iraqi … the tradition while listening to performances in homes and Baghdadi coffee houses. Shibith reportedly took the … additional step of engaging a teacher of Arabic literature and poetry to augment his education at a Jewish school in …

… Special Symposium Ernst Bloch: The Jew as European and American Composer On the Occasion of the 50th … The Jewish Cycle of Ernest Bloch is a product of European cultural mind. Its creation in 1912-1917, together with … view of the music-cum-culture-oriented commentators. Such a cultural discourse constituted a manifestation of …

… Introduction It is November 15, 2016 and I am sitting in a car, driving on a mountain road that … of historical records from the Nahda time, the period of cultural and intellectual “renaissance” that characterized … outside the Middle East; given that for many in the region contact with Israeli institutions or individuals presents a …

… 1911 collection Brounoff 1911.pdf Example 6 Notation and 1st and 7th verses to the wedding song based on "E h ad mi … this song within the haggadah , the question of its origins and source, and will examine a few versions and adaptions …

… online, you were surely exposed to a barrage of factual and fictional information that, in the Internet Age, … not without justification, considering the heavily German cultural and linguistic leaning of the early Zionist … is apparently not the original one and resulted from the contacts between the poet and teachers of the Rishon …

… Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch directly upon the … , and notwithstanding recent publications of intricate cultural-historical scholarship concerning the Binding of … their thematic content, formal aspects, as well as their cultural contexts and functions. Special attention will be …

… מדויקים, גורר באופן אוטומטי משמעויות חדשות (Silverstein and Urban 1996). בנוסף לרקונטקסטואליזציה, הפיוט "אדון … בקריאה אוטואתנוגרפית – קריאה המודעת לעובדה שבאזורי מגע (contact zones) 4   של תרבויות שונות, אנשי הקבוצות החלשות … Popular Music 8 (2): 131-141. ‏Herzfeld, Michael. 1997. Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-state . …