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Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… porosity between vocal and instrumental repertoires of the Eastern European Jewish tradition. Figure 5: Version of the nign … stands out. This feature brings this nign close to the Eastern European Jewish instrumental repertoire ( klezmer ; …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… World War II, investigating these practices within a broad European cultural context. The synagogue is conceived not … was idiosyncratically developed by Hirsh Weintraub, an Eastern European cantor, and continued by Eduard Birnbaum in … will also challenge the binary construct of Western and Eastern Ashkenaz that has been criticized in other fields of …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… repository of sound and ethnographic documentation of Eastern European Jewish music and folklore. The complicated paths of …
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 …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… work from 1924 shows Stutschewsky’s exposure to Central European modernism embedded within a Jewish multi-ethnic … that includes liturgical, para-liturgical and folk tunes of Eastern European and Babylonian Jewish communities. This release, …
Moshe Cordova
… was also known as Kal de los Francos (Synagogue of the Europeans) since at least the late 1910s. It was founded by … in Israel, the predominance of Arabic music styles (Middle Eastern or Maghrebi ones) in Sephardic synagogues certainly … … Isaac Algazi … Shimon Uzziel … Refael Yair Elnadav … Eastern Sephardi … Moshe Cordova …
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, with … According to Karnes, folk songs were collected in Eastern Europe since the 1850s, decades after this practice …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… para-liturgical and non-religious music of the non-European Jewish communities whose members relocated to … Edith Gerson-Kiwi's extensive estate was acquired by the European Center for Jewish Music (EZJM) in Hannover, … a transfer vividly transpires in her encounters with Middle Eastern Jews eternalized in her voluminous recordings. Edith …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… symmetric structure [that] gives it the stamp of the common European song.” Melody emerges in this case from the poetic … version of the melody, identified by Avenary as the “Eastern European” one, is quoted from Idelsohn in volume 8 … Thesaurus of Oriental Jewish Melodies , dedicated to the Eastern European Ashkenazi liturgy (1932, no. 211). This …
Clara Wenz
… Clara Wenz is an ethnomusicologist specializing in Middle Eastern music, music and sound studies, political … of religion and relationships between Europe and the Middle East. Her current research project … in Ethnomusicology, SOAS, London, 2015-present MA Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS, London, 2012-2013 BA Philosophy …