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German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … 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
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … of one of Berlin’s more mediocre works, “Oh, how that German Could Love”in Berlin’s own 1909 recording (xiii-xv). … and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take on assumed black music tastes) on which all of Berlin’s early works centred. …
Dan Deutsch
… Deutsch is currently an Azrieli postdoctoral fellow in the Musicology Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. … earned his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. His … and socio-cultural experiences within the music of German-Jewish composers in the long nineteenth-century. …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Gershom Scholem and Franz Rosenzweig, who formulated their German-Jewish identity within “the traditional bounds of … demonstrates the “complex, non-monolithic nature” of the German-Jewish experience that lies in the “interaction with … in Unger’s history: Unger decided to “devote his life to music making” after hearing Mahler’s Lied von der Erde ; he …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … 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 …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … among various communities, there seems to be an underlying musical structure tying together all the documented versions … mostly (but not only) musical. This encounter between the German-born ethnomusicologist and her collaborator, the …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in Berlin, … 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 …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new … 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 …
Clara Wenz
… Clara Wenz is an ethnomusicologist specializing in Middle Eastern music, music and sound studies, political … Doctoral Studentship Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation), 2016-2019 Mildred Loss …
Stefanie Mockert
… Mockert, who graduated in Musicology from Humboldt University, Berlin, is a researcher … 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) ” …