(882 results found)
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… was planned as a collaboration with the late Israeli musicologist of Latvian origin Joachim Braun (Bar Ilan … as much as it pertains to Zionism. Scholars of Israeli culture will find this discussion pertinent as it offers … encounters that are attractive precisely due to their unlikeliness. Analogous representations of unlikely crossover …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… browser does not support the audio element. Rabbi/Cantor Azelio Servi (b. Pitigliano), Holocaust survivor and cantor in … below the tonic on “panekha” (preparation of the end); and melismatic setting of the text (especially Schönheit’s … He based his assessment by comparing Rossi’s setting with Azelio Servi’s version, perhaps because he was unaware of the …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… includes another recording of the song, this one by singer Elie Cohen. He recorded a slightly shorter version of La … does not support the audio element. Example 2. La galana , Elie Cohen Here is a comparison of the texts in both recordings: Compagnie Espagnole de Salonique Elie Cohen Sufriendo siempre, siempre, yaré, sufriendo …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… of Jewishness as a lived experience that entails a flux of religious, national, and cultural configurations. But … These blows of faith are part of the Mahler myth, which relies on history to the extent that it serves to idolize …
Dan Deutsch
… Dan Deutsch is currently an Azrieli postdoctoral fellow in the Musicology Department at the …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… original research, and full of phrases (such as “in all likelihood’’, “perhaps he would have noted” and others) that … was selling to America as a whole, regardless of origin or religion. Indeed, such was its success that it became itself … us much of a feel for Berlin as a “Jewish figure”. The religion clearly meant little or nothing to him; we have no …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… and North African Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew song, which had developed starting in the … occurring in front of our eyes. There is no reason to believe that similar processes of creativity did not take …
Moshe Cordova
… monarchy. They named their congregation Comunità Israelitico-Straniera di Rito Spagnuolo-Portoghese di … editor of the important collection of Ottoman piyyutim (religious poems), Shirei Israel be-Eretz Haqedem “Songs of … on September 16, 1951 advertised a live broadcast of the Selihot service by the “best cantors from the Balkan …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… and marginalized by mainstream (Western-oriented) Israeli culture. Only one Israeli institution— the Israeli Broadcast Authority (IBA) —supported an Arabic music …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… forgotten work, by cellist and researcher Racheli Galay and composer and pianist Amit Weiner. This early … the composition, and an extensive biographical article. Racheli Galay , cello Amit Weiner , piano Recorded at Givat …