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Yaakov Huri recordings
… grant “From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” a joint venture … Musik (Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Germany) and the Jewish Music Research Centre (Hebrew …
Matthew Austerklein
… his PhD in Jewish Studies at Halle-Wittenberg University in Germany, where is been advised by Dr. Diana Matut and Dr. Edwin Seroussi. His research focuses on the musical professionalization of the Ashkenazic cantorate in … history and the intersections of Judaism and classical music. Austerklein is the editor of three books, including …
Yaakov Huri
… relations dominating the encounters between European ethnomusicologists and their subjects of inquiry in Israel. Our … grant “From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” a … Musik (Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Germany) and the Jewish Music Research Centre (Hebrew …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… unique texts such as the selection of Psalm verses whose music is discussed below. The memory of the melodies and … of the refugees from Spain…They did not mingle with German Jews…Their traditional tunes differ to a great extent … the Middle Ages. Peculiarly enough, these Jews accepted the German Ashkenazi Pessach tune of Adir Hu.” “Scientific” in …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… article appeared in parallel columns in English, French and German in Musica Hebraica (1-2 [1938]: 18-20), the very short-lived … [6] The cantor from Alsace was obviously of Ashkenazi (German) origin. [7] Unlike our observation in note 2 above, …
The Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Liturgy
… Few Jewish liturgical music traditions have been as consistently maintained as … to the remarkable, stability of their liturgical music. In addition the performers of this music, the hazzanim (cantors), belong to long and sometimes …
Mapping of German Liturgical Music
… The Jewish Music Research Centre is proud to present a map of all known … and available printed sources of liturgical music form the German-speaking Jewish world. This map derives from the … project was carried out in the framework of the project "German-Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections" funded by the …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared … and in some details. A third, partial autobiography in German was located in 2017 in a batch of uncatalogued … of the Hebrew Union College (HUC) in New York City. This German text provides insights into Idelsohn’s ancestors …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a … in the Jewish past. A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern … as he experienced it across the Baltic region, urban Germany, Ottoman and early British Palestine, Lithuanian …
Tzur mishelo akhlanu
… the festive Sabbath eve meal, are a favorite location for musical creativity in most Jewish traditions. The Portuguese … melody in ternary meter that evokes the tune of a Dutch or German folksong. The strained setting of the text to the …