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In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, … 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
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … 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
… in sections according to the different Turkish makam s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem … 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
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … 1794). Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common … 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
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … 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 …
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
… (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in Berlin, Leipzig, Heidelberg, Freiburg i. Br. … 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 …