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A Liturgy within the Liturgy: The German Torah Service in Past and Present
… open study session A Liturgy within the Liturgy: The German Torah Service in Past and Present In the framework of the collaborative project German-Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections funded by the … standpoint based on fieldwork carried in German synagogues in 2019-2021, the evolution of the Torah service …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… of the entire liturgical cycle of the Spanish-Portuguese synagogue from London with the Reverend Eliezer Abinun (1912-1998) and the Southern German liturgical tradition from Cantor Avigdor Unna …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) … practices within a broad European cultural context. The synagogue is conceived not only as a ritual space but also … that a new paradigm of Jewish liturgical music developed in German-speaking communities parallel to the gradual rise of …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… of one of Berlin’s more mediocre works, “Oh, how that German Could Love”in Berlin’s own 1909 recording (xiii-xv). … no evidence that he ever in his life even stepped inside a synagogue. He married a Catholic and brought up his children …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… which inhabited Latvia, namely, Jews, Roma, Russians, Germans, Lithuanians, Poles, Belarussians, Latgalians, … 1850s, decades after this practice was well established in Germany, but almost half a century before the first … Joseph A. 2001. “The Three-Part Selicha Mode,” Journal of Synagogue Music 28/1: 1–36 Nadel, Arno. 1923. Jüdische …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Comparative Musicology. Lachmann was also forced to leave Germany in 1936 and settled in Jerusalem. There he founded … musicology and Jewish music, and a mediator between German culture and scholarship and the nascent Israeli … of the Baghdadi Jewish community. The collection includes synagogue liturgy, life cycle songs, domestic rituals, and …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… that the “Western” melody, i.e. Sulzer’s, is similar to German folk melodies, some documented as early as the … (1932, p. xxxix), which also refers to other possible German sources for this melody. Idelsohn included “She’eh … es Hymnes, l es Psaumes e t l a Liturgie Complète d e l a Synagogue d es Temps l es p lus Reculés j usqu' a ̀ n os …
Stefanie Mockert
… Her studies focus on the liturgical music of Southern German Jews, bringing in an interdisciplinary perspective … “ From Berlin to Jerusalem and back - The letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson- Kiwi (1908-1992) ” … Transformation of Southern German Jewish Liturgy. The first Synagogue in Munich 1826-1887.” Mockert has received …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… of the above-mentioned repertoires. [3] Moreover, synagogue cantors, ḥazzanim, often tended to structure new … affiliations today (including my right to obtain a second German passport and travel freely between Israel and … which was supported by a doctoral studentship of the German National Academic Foundation and the Mildred Loss …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… emerged during the tenth century in present day southern Germany and northern France. However, it also acquired two … 1920, i: 83–84). This passage is also ritually read in the synagogue from the Torah scroll on two annual occasions: as … of many types of piyyutim , yet they are rare in German literature (Fleischer 2007, 470; Goldschmidt 1965, 9; …
The Training of Hazzanim in Nineteenth-Century Germany
… Nineteenth-century Germany witnessed a fundamental change in the process by … phenomenon since the later eighteenth century of individual German cantors, here and there, notating their own … and the 'adot hamizrah , namely the oral transmission of synagogue chant. However, starting in the 1830s and 1840s, …
Between Tradition and Modernity
… Maier Levi and his times as well as of the entire Southern German liturgical Jewish tradition round out the 470 pages … the most extensive and detailed transcription of the synagogue chant of the South German Jews. On this chant tradition Maier Levi clearly was …


