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The Archives of the World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine, 1936-1940, at the Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem
… The World Centre for Jewish Music was established in 1936 by German and Austrian immigrants wanting to create a place in … Hebraica) edited by Dr Salli Levi and Herman Sweet. Many Jews dedicated time and effort to the Centre out of a belief … failure since World War II severed all connections between Jews in the land of Israel and Diaspora Jewry. The present …
Kol Rinah U’Tfillah
… … Congregational singing … Ashkenaz … Arrangements … Germany … Europe … Arvit - Evening prayer … Choral music … … … Choir … Ashkenazi … Berlin … Cantorial music … Choral … German Jews … Jews … range … Cantor … Ashkenazi … Louis Lewandowski …
Blue Note: The Story of Modern Jazz
… the passion and vision of Alfred Lion and Frank Wolff: two German Jews who emigrated from Nazi Germany to New York in the 1930s and 'discovered' an art …
A Man from Munkasc: Gypsy Klezmer
… explores the symbiotic relationship between the Rom and Jews who lived together before and after World War Two in … etc.), most of the time the klezmer musicians were not Jews but Rom. In fact, the Rom had played with and for Jews … 51 … 9 … Duna TV (Hungary) and Starcrest Films (Frankfurt, Germany). … … 2005 … Holocaust … Klezmer musicians … Klezmer …
Comedian Harmonists
… Feature. 126 min. German with Engl. subt. Director: J. Vilsmaier Life in … to the political changes taking place at the time in Germany. The official anti-Semitic policy of the Nazi Party … … Germany, Austria … … 1997 … Holocaust … Germany … German Jews … Jews … Feature … Antisemitism … Comedian Harmonists …
The Comedian Harmonists - Documentary
… The Comedian Harmonists was a men's vocal group started in Germany at the end of the 1920s by Harry Frommerman, who dreamed of creating a German version of the American Revelers. His sextet, … 9 … Germany (West) … … 1977 … Holocaust … Germany … German Jews … Jews … Documentary … Antisemitism … The Comedian …
Joel Rubin with the Epstein Brothers Orchestra: Zeydes un Eyniklekh
… embodiment of 'klezmer' for several generations of American Jews. … 7 … Mainz, Germany … Wergo … … 1995 … Klezmer musicians … Klezmer music …
Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s Legacy
… Noah Gerber will investigate the central place Yemenite Jews held within Idelsohn’s philosophies of Hebrew culture … Put differently, how and why did Idelsohn translate German culture—and the German language (“safah kulturit”)—into Hebrew music? How …
The Jewish Bloch
… devices, specifically related to his perceptions of Jews, with strict command of form, mastery of orchestration … these latter qualities, Bloch positioned himself as a pro-German, pro-mainstream composer. By such self-positioning, … (which were never performed after their premieres in Germany). Yet there is little doubt that it was the …
Judeo-Spanish Traditions in Transition
… veneno de Moriana (Tetuan). Marion Mader, Köln University, Germany The Role of the Radio in Relocating and Reshaping … agents for the emotional resettlement of Ladino speaking Jews in Israel. Furthermore, their work included the … et al. Revisited: Music of Crypto- and not-so-Crypto Jews in Portugal In 1996, I began an ongoing project …