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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 … in which framework she contributed a study on the early modern community in Munich “Musical Transformation of …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new … Jewish historical memory, this fast day has not generated nearly as much Hebrew poetical creativity as the Ninth of Av, … 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
… Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” is a joint … Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Germany) and the Jewish Music Research Centre (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, … among a new generation of American-born scholars since the early 1950s. Numerous letters that Gerson-Kiwi exchanged …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… communities of Italy (Venice, Modena, Livorno) since the early seventeenth century, and not always in relation to the … such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … is one of the many meetings of this type characteristic of early Israeli musical ethnography. They rendered precious …
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 … the Middle Ages for Jews and non-Jews alike,” while “in the early 1900s, Russian began gradually to overtake German” (p. … claim for centricity). Yet the end of section 3, then, clearly reverts to harmonic minor. Melngailis notates E as the …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… מִשָּׁמַיִם וּרְאֵה; וּפְקֹד, גֶּפֶן זֹאת Clearly, the liturgist who set this passage noticed that verse … medieval period. These verses already appear in the very early and magnificent Mahzor Soncino- Casalmaggiore printed … return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical performance of the three verses. The precious Leo …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… of the boy Berlin in the New York streets and docks, his early encounter of a Christmas tree at the dwelling of the … exception of a brave account of Berlin and ragtime in the early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… of piyyutim , “Imre no’am,” which contributed to the early dissemination in Western Sephardic and North African … and rightly so. Jagoda first recorded the song in her early album “Kantikas di mi nona” (Songs of My Grandmother) … patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. Purim, Purim Lanu (Ladino …
Moshe Cordova
… m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge about Cordova’s early years there is meager. A turning point in his life was … Paşa Street was dedicated in 1886. During its heyday in the early twentieth century, Jewish singers from various …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of … 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 …