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The Bergamasca: Some Jewish Links?
… between the bergamasca , the popular Renaissance dance, and Jewish synagogue music? The idea had first been suggested by Eduard Birnbaum … its links - hypothetical as well as confirmed - with Jewish music. … 23139 … Bergamasca … Renaissance … Music … Jewish …
Jewish Singing and Boxing in Georgian England
… composed of dry lists of names, titles, textual and musical incipits, folio numbers, concordances, variant spellings and other similarly 'inspiring' … are merely the stuff from which the historical and musical story may be reconstructed. Yet, as every library …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… has shown in a lifetime of work, the history of Jewish music is really a set of complex, interlocking histories. … of a given Jewish community and time in terms of its musical life. One type of situation, which I … assimilating public. The cameraman who filmed the wedding-dance sequence in the Polish town of Kazimierz Dolny …
Aspects of Music Culture in the Land of Israel during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Periods: Sepphoris as a Case Study
… years of Hellenistic culture, manifested in language, art, music, cult and thought. Yet, despite and alongside the … time offers an opportunity to examine the development of music culture in a region that was inhabited by people of … the music culture in the Land of Israel. Based on the abundance of music-related artifacts found, this paper examines …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … Such remarks provide little information concerning the music itself, yet they offer valuable insights for the … Following the printing revolution, and the subsequent abundance of private prayer books, these prayer practices …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … stored in the shelves of the Lebanese Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research (AMAR). Located in the little … how the dabke , one of the region’s most popular folk dances, belonged to the Palestinian national struggle: We …
Stefanie Mockert
… Mockert, who graduated in Musicology from Humboldt University, Berlin, is a researcher at the Hebrew University's Jewish Music Research Centré. Her studies focus on the liturgical … Prof. Denis Burstein at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Former teachers include Prof. Yaron Rosenthal …
Nili Belkind
… the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University (2014) and is an ethnomusicologist specializing in the Middle East—with a special … book (International Council of Traditions of Music and Dance [ICTMD] 2022) Music in Conflict: Palestine, Israel and …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … us to study, perform, and hear again some of the songs and dances performed by members of substantial, centuries-old … later, the “ Lithuanian Polka ” melody became a folk dance among the pioneers in Palestine, usually without a …
Moshe Cordova
… m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … career as a synagogue singer and composer. Parallel to his musical career he developed a business in the field of … The general drop in religious observance and synagogue attendance among Turkish Jews certainly counts as a major factor. …