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Assaf Shelleg
… Musicologist and pianist Assaf Shelleg is senior lecturer of musicology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was … Book Award of the Association for Jewish Studies. A German translation this book was published by …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… of the opening stanza, is the refrain (the same words and music are repeated) and x, the last line of the rest of the … catalogue. The persistence of our poem in the heart of the German soil and its presence further East, in Poland, is … documented in 1724 and 1733) found in South and West Germany, West of the Rhine river (See image no. 1) and in …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … even though major ceremonies of Judaism which include music take place within the circle of the immediate or … Nathanson, 1939 In contrast to this German-oriented lineage of the learning tune, Abraham Z. …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… be performed in Jewish communities on Purim, especially in Germany, is one of those songs. Attributed to Salomon Ibn … 1912 (De Rossi 697), which is dated to the 15 th century in Germany or France. The song is in fol. 21a-b and follows the … and its documentation are therefore formidable. However, musical renditions of the piyyut are rather rare and will be …
Bernardo Feuer
… and secondary school in his hometown and was drawn to music from an early age. Feuer learned the basics of music from his father, and later joined several liturgical … 1959 Feuer also worked with the Sephardic Jewish and the German Jewish (Bnei Israel) community in Chile, and promoted …
Between Tradition and Modernity
… Maier Levi of Esslingen is volume 12 of the JMRC's Yuval Music Series. The new production comprises 179 liturgical … Maier Levi and his times as well as of the entire Southern German liturgical Jewish tradition round out the 470 pages … detailed transcription of the synagogue chant of the South German Jews. On this chant tradition Maier Levi clearly was …
Heinrich Schalit and Paul Ben-Haim in Munich
… The Nazi rise to power in Germany at the beginning of 1933 brought to an abrupt halt an important development in the field of Jewish music in Munich, especially with regard to the cooperation … … Paul Ben-Haim … Composers … Jewish composers … Munich … Germany … Nazi Germany … Heinrich Schalit and Paul Ben-Haim …
Introduction to Idelsohn’s Autobiographical Sketches
… came only two years after the triumphant completion of the German version of the Hebräisch-orientalischer … was printed half a year later in Jacob Beiml's Jewish Music Journal (New York). … 9593 … Idelsohn A.Z. … …
Idelsohn’s Scholarly and Literary Publications: An Annotated Bibliography
… was regarded by many as the savant and saviour of Jewish music. In 1932 on the double occasion of his fiftieth … the man and his work from writers the world over. Germany, Holland, Palestine, England, South Africa, America … that he has bestowed upon the Jew a great gift, a music of his own, hitherto undiscovered, unknown. Hence, …
Orality as Religious Ideal: The Music of East-European Jewish Prayer
… Since the nineteenth century, largely as a consequence of German Romantic aesthetics, the study of art has looked upon … the process of copying with an unsympathetic eye. For the German Romantics, the use of any pre-existent element in an … As a consequence of this attitude, great compositions of music - such as those of Beethoven - were often imagined as …