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Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
Introduction
Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other…
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac,…
Moshe Attias
The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent passing of Cheikh…
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
Introduction
It is November 15, 2016 and I am sitting in a car, driving on a mountain…
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule…
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity. New York: Routledge, 2017…
Arabs - Jews - Music
With the rise of Islam and the expanding Arab conquests throughout the Middle East,…
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music (minhag…
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
I spent the summer of 1989 living in a Nazareth Illit (today Nof HaGalil) neighborhood…