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Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World
… klezmer music squarely within American music studies, cultural studies, and ethnomusicology. Neither a chronology … overlap with, and differ from, the many other contemporary 'heritage' musics based on an assumed connection with a group …
From Shtetl to Swing
… generation of Jewish immigrants, combined their Jewish heritage with the African-American Jazz style, and changed the cultural face of their newly adopted homeland. Director: …
The Epstein Brothers Orchestra: Kings of Freylekh Land
… the Heart' and recipients of the prestigious 1998 National Heritage Award from the US National Endowment for the Arts, … an exciting journey into the American-Jewish musical and cultural experience of the past 100 years. Max Epstein ranks …
Ashkenazic and Italian Liturgy
… a variety of liturgical minhagim (customs) based on the heritage of the Italian, Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews who … the notion of liturgical minhag as a dynamic area of cultural interaction. Ruth HaCohen, Department of …
Selihot according to Siftei renanot
… challenging “orthodox” visions of Judaism by stressing also cultural values. The uniqueness of Siftei renanot resides in … Organization for the Preservation and Diffusion of the Heritage of the Libyan Jews, 2007). The second version is an …
Hayrana Laih
… A twenty-first century awakening in the interest on the cultural heritage of Jews from the Arab world in Israel and elsewhere …
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… liturgy. The openness of Yiddish folksongs to different cultural strata, makes it possible to speculate in regards … songs that are well known today usually represent the heritage of these writers, and so, songs such as Goldfaden's …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… phenomenon, elevating it from a sociological pattern to a cultural myth. For the various contemporary explanations for … blossomed in Russia because Jews received a safe space or cultural haven at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and the … Russian composer was to embrace his own Jewish ethnic heritage. But this casual cultural antisemitism was not the …
Sounds from under the Ashes: The Music of Cults and Mysteries in the Ancient Vesuvian Land
… Vesuvius … Ancient music … Ancient Musical Practices … Cultural heritage … Mediterranean culture … Sounds from under the …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… , 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 … preserver of the Alsatian Jewish community’s chanting heritage ( minhag Elsass ) sings the one recording at the …