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The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… uncovered unique music materials in Holland, Italy, France, Great Britain and Germany, not only in libraries and secured …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… to be linked to his passion for music. According to his great niece in New York, Taboush lost his eyesight when, … in London. Earlier drafts of this article have benefitted greatly from comments by my former PhD supervisor Ilana … Jerusalemite ʿud-player Wasif Jawhariyah, was home to many great Aleppian-Jewish musicians and ḥazzanim (Tamari & …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… landscape in Palestine / Israel that was characterized by great heterogeneity. The old/new land appears as a meeting …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… liturgies, such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic … ana” made by a cantor who hailed from east of Aleppo, the great city in Syria. “Bore ‘ad ana” is not included in the …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… To do so, Unger needs to be backed by a figure that is “greater than life,” one that “made history”. Mahler appears …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… for selling like Berlin could also prosper. Berlin’s two great marketing coups in organizing army shows in the two …
Moshe Cordova
… el yotzri , a kâr in makam Hicaz. Odekha is a poem by the great late 16 th century poet/musician Rabbi Israel Najara …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… following wonderful moment from Hersch’s book, in which the great stride pianist Willie “The Lion” Smith, an … art as players, composers, producers, and distributers. In great public expressions of this strange Jewish … Jews of color such as Willie “The Lion” Smith. Perhaps the greatest lesson offered by the jazz musician is in the …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… to recall the songs she performed. Instead, to the great admiration of her listeners, she possessed the ability …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… people – a CD with the voice of Sholem Aleichem, the great son of the Jewish people and of the Ukrainian, and …