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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 … Jewish musicians affiliated with the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music: Lazare Saminski, who praised …
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 … on the honorary board of directors of the Gustav Mahler Society of America (19, 21, 79). Moreover, Unger nurtured …
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). … appeal could extend across the many components of American society. As scholars including Charles Hamm have noted, his … both his own cultural background and that of the society he was selling to: “The two holidays that celebrate …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) … intersections between Jews with the surrounding Christian society, and of marking of communal and regional … that a new paradigm of Jewish liturgical music developed in German-speaking communities parallel to the gradual rise of …
Curt Sachs
… A Memorial Address'. Journal of the American Musicological Society 11, No. 1 ( 1958): 1-5. Gétreau Florence, ' Curt … (1960): 88–89. (in French) … American musicologist of German birth, founders of modern organology … Musicologist … German Jews … American … organologist … Curt Sachs …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… to find a place for himself in the post-war Hungarian society, he fulfilled his dream and settled in the … Avigdor was already integrated into the fabric of the new society. His ties to the national religious movement and his … the Reverend Eliezer Abinun (1912-1998) and the Southern German liturgical tradition from Cantor Avigdor Unna …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… to break away from the ghetto, such as the composer German composer of Jewish origin Giacomo Meyerbeer (whose … money for himself and get access to the British Jewish high society. This evidence supports Idelsohn’s report of his …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a … to recover Jewish culture, economics, politics, and society. Yet something of that texts and tears, martyrs and … as he experienced it across the Baltic region, urban Germany, Ottoman and early British Palestine, Lithuanian …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… 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 … [1] Translations according to Jewish Publication Society, 1985 [2] See: Philippe Bobichon, Manuscrits en …
Yaakov Huri
… a profile of the man, his ideals and his standing in society. We supplemented heir detailed testimony with a … 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 …