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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a brief general history of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of the cultural life of Jews in Latvia, … According to Karnes, folk songs were collected in Eastern Europe since the 1850s, decades after this practice … and their culture, subsequently, was part of the larger Eastern European Jewish space. Karnes maintains that this …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… led Jacobson to his conclusion that Rossi knew at least one “real” Jewish (oral) melody. To make his case, …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… song included in the new publication of the JMRC, Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs from the EMI … Sephardim … Judeo-Spanish Songs … Rhodes … Wedding … Boda … Eastern Sephardi … La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Old World and ends with the integration into the formerly East European Jewish communities of the New World. But as …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… as “during the High Holy Days, leading a choir in a Lower East Side Temple. Oh, and he took along his youngest son who … became Berlin’s true genius and of what was Jewish – or at least ‘Jew-ish’ – about Berlin’s life and achievements. … Irving Berlin brilliantly do? He de-Christs them both!... Easter turns into a fashion show and Christmas into a …
Moshe Cordova
… Kal de los Francos (Synagogue of the Europeans) since at least the late 1910s. It was founded by Jews of Italian … Shirei Israel be-Eretz Haqedem “Songs of Israel in the East,” together with Binyamin Bekhar Yossef (z”l) and Bekhor … precious recordings of Cordova’s voice have survived. At least two pieces sung by him appear in the old 78rpm …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… the most prominent practitioners and disseminators of Near Eastern urban music, and had also laid the foundation for … the country, as well as various ensembles dedicated to East-West fusions such as Bustan Abraham, energized the …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… that includes liturgical, para-liturgical and folk tunes of Eastern European and Babylonian Jewish communities. This …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… the (sporadically documented) scene in nineteenth century Eastern Europe, retains the internal logic of klezmer as a … the field continues to move forward. … 12108 … Klezmer … Eastern Europe … Naftule Brandwein … Dave Tarras … New York …
Arabs - Jews - Music
… and the expanding Arab conquests throughout the Middle East, North Africa and Spain, the vast majority of the Jews … well into the twentieth century. This process ended, at least in the intensity that characterized it throughout … the modern national/ethno-religious conflicts in the Middle East that followed the fall of the Ottoman Empire and …