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The Idelsohn Project
… Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in … niggun) Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, was a European-born Jewish musician who insisted that music and affect were inseparable … of his autobiography written in Hebrew, English and German with added selections from the oral memoire of …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… to break away from the ghetto, such as the composer German composer of Jewish origin Giacomo Meyerbeer (whose … his own Gesamtkunstwerk, ‘Yiftah’, as ‘hizzayon negini’ (musical play). Modern Hebrew writers embraced the biblical … plays, plural of ‘hizzayon’] of Israel’s history, with musical accompaniment (i.e., ‘hizzayon negini’), ‘that will …
A Liturgy within the Liturgy: The German Torah Service in Past and Present
… Theater und Medien in Hannover (HMTMH) And the Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of … 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 …
Jewish-German Musical Encounters in Hamburg
… by Prof. Edwin Seroussi in the conference "Jewish Music Research: Case Study Hamburg" convened by Prof. Reinhard Flender at the University of Music Hamburg, March 1-3, 2022. For a video of the complete … … A Lecture by Edwin Seroussi … Jewish-German Musical Encounters in Hamburg …
Judith Cohen
… Judith Cohen was born in Germany. When she has four year old, she immigrated to … and lived in Tel Aviv. Cohen studied at "the seminary for music teachers" (1953-1956). After her military service, she … she wrote her doctoral thesis, which focused on Renaissance music. Upon her return to Israel, she began teaching at "the …
49. Im afes (Çakum Effendi)
… Bar Isaac of Regensburg (1110-1175), a poet from Ashkenaz (Germany), that is included in the Sephardic selihot service. … - Ladino … Ladino Songs … Ottoman Empire … Sephardic music … Salonica … Saloniki … Thessaloniki … Selihot - …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …