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My Path to Jewish Music
… of essays Mein Weg zur jüdischen Musik (My Path to Jewish Music), published in Vienna in 1935 by Jibneh-Musikverlag, … Krein. Dedicated to Joel Engel—the “catalyst” whose early influence ignited Stutschewsky’s commitment to Jewish … many centuries lay fallow and unexplored. Engel recognized early on the great significance of folk music for higher …
Pesah Bat Qol Yishama’
… a most unexpected source: the archive of the Iraqi Jewish musician Ezra Aharon (Azuri al-Awwad). A voluminous score … despite some critical remarks by the Ukrainian-born music critic toward the Baghdad-born musician. It is … Passover that was eventually adopted by Ashkenazi Jews as early as the fourteenth century—not only for Passover, but …
Passover Ditties: Hermana Simha, Pesah Ya Vino
… as a B instead of C. The song was already recorded in the early 1950s by the celebrated Spanish folklorist Arcadio de … into an item of the modern global repertoire of Sephardic music. … With thanks to Dr. Oro Anahory-Librowicz, a founder … … Pesach … Tetuan … Judeo-Spanish - Ladino … Sephardi music … Passover Ditties: Hermana Simha, Pesah Ya Vino … …
Edith Gerson-Kiwi in Tehran (1961): Documents from a Revealing Journey
… by the playlist Edith Gerson Kiwi’s Recordings of Musical Traditions from Iran . “Persia’s geographical … the development of the medieval systems of music, both of early Christianity, and of elements of ancient Hindu and … assume that this abundant ancient inheritance would affect early Christian music. After the decline of those world …
Rebecca Cypess
… at Yeshiva University. She is the author of Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment (2022), Curious and Modern Inventions: Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo’s Italy (2016), co-editor of … Perspectives (2026), Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy: New Perspectives (2022), and Sara Levy’s …
NigunimBimBom
… ( www.nigunimbimbom.org ) is a crowdsourcing digital-ethnomusicological project that began as Michael Lukin ’s … Jewish National Fund and now operating within the Jewish Music Research Centre. It is an evolving digital archive … on nigunim documented in Eastern Europe. It draws on early printed collections and manuscripts that reflect how …
"Evolution of Jewish Music": Discourse Communities and Narrative Construction in the Performance of Music History
… ensemble, posted a video on YouTube titled “Evolution of Music.” In the four-and-a-half-minute video, the five … hallmark of authenticity (Dale 2017), again grounding this early part of the “evolution” in figures aligned with strict … a four-member “boy band” that performed in a style clearly inspired by popular groups such as the Backstreet Boys …
Pre-Mediation and the Crisis of Experiential Memorialization: Listening to the Nova Exhibition
… gathered in the Negev Desert for the Supernova music festival. [1] By day’s end, armed Hamas militants had … the Nova Exhibition in August 2024, at a moment when nearly one hundred hostages remained in Gaza, with at least … experiential curatorial strategies of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century memorial museums, but rather a …
Antiguo Cancionero Sefardí: Old Judeo-Spanish Songs Recovered
… and Havassy 2009), which focused on Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) musical incipits appearing at the head of Hebrew … manuscripts and printed sources from the fifteenth to the early twentieth century. These incipits, which guided the … An unexpected result of this intensive research into early Sephardic manuscripts and printed works was the …
Ezra Aharon (“Azuri”): A Letter from David Avisar to the board of the Association for the Hebrew Oriental Song
… to ensure a balanced representation of diverse Jewish musical traditions in the incipient Hebrew mass media of … the establishment of the State of Israel, Avisar pens an early expression of the proto-mizrahi struggle for the equal … reaches the tens of thousands of lovers of Oriental music, Sephardim and non-Sephardim, Jews and non-Jews, who …
25. Perahai, Tsemahai
… and respect nature was an integral component in the child's early upbringing and several of the songs in this disc … … Field work … Hebrew poets … Israeli Folk Songs … Israeli Music … Israeli poets … Zemer Ivri … Efrat Leibowitz … …
21. The Bird
… niggun was later adopted by the Chabad Hassidim who by the early 1960s considered it as their own niggun . … 21 … 7 … … … Field work … Hebrew poets … Israeli Folk Songs … Israeli Music … Israeli poets … Zemer Ivri … Efrat Leibowitz … …


