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Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… as part of Parashat Vayera’ (Gen. XVIII:1 – XXII:24), early in the annual cycle of weekly portions, and on the … [10] Still, the overwhelming majority of poems clearly indicates that the ideal form for an ‘Akedah piyyut … National Sound Archives (NSA) at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem has yielded only one recording. [32] It …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish … Iraqi music. Most of these musicians moved to Israel in the early 1950s, part of the Jewish exodus from Arab lands, … citizens among its cadre of regular musicians. This was clearly part of the IBA’s cultural policy following Israel’s …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… well as in the modern Hebrew song repertoire in the Land of Israel. I am grateful to Dr. Neil Levin for his gracious … the Old to the New World, it is worth stressing that as early as the 1880s, America began exporting Yiddish songs … . and workers sing his songs with tears in their eyes.” As early as 1914, twenty-two years after Edlestadt died, …
Moshe Attias
… most distinguished and long-standing Moroccan musicians in Israel. This short note prepared by JMRC Director, Professor … label at their studio on Raziel Street in Jaffa. These early recording sessions were all “live to tape,” unlike … a hallmark of Moroccan religious devotion, hillulot , the yearly celebrations of the death anniversary of saintly …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… receiving of the Ten Commandments, and the arrival of the Israelites to the land of Canaan. Geographically, our song … as a hub for the wide distribution of our song as early as the first half of the 18th century: Venice, with … region. Below we will highlight only a few. One significant early publication is derived from a collection of Hebrew and …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , an insert of the … College in Cincinnati. Fast forward to the 1950s. A young Israeli scholar studying in Paris, Israel Adler (1925-2009), … which he finished upon his return to Israel in the early 1960s. This thesis was submitted to the Sorbonne and …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… Odeh ” (Every day I am grateful), which was released in the early 1920s by the Lebanese record label Baidaphon, the … the Arab-Ottoman world during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. In musical terms, the Nahda is … essentially immobile and inaccessible to many, especially Israeli Jews; second, the famous record’s copy on my mobile …
Stefanie Mockert
… Sacred Musical Intersections ” supported by the German-Israel Foundation, in which framework she contributed a study on the early modern community in Munich “Musical Transformation of … career Mockert performs and teaches piano in Europe and Israel. She is studying with Prof. Denis Burstein at the …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Jewish historical memory, this fast day has not generated nearly as much Hebrew poetical creativity as the Ninth of Av, … in this text. Indeed, as part of his acerbic approach to Israeli musicology in general and to the work of Avenary in … in one of the oldest Ashkenazi orders of prayers, dated as early as the twelfth century (Ms. Or. fol. 1224 …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Music Research Centre (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel). It was launched in the framework of the Research Cooperation Agreement Lower Saxony – Israel signed between our institutions on November 2016. … … among a new generation of American-born scholars since the early 1950s. Numerous letters that Gerson-Kiwi exchanged …