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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 … songs, it seems that the absence of a scholar familiar with Hebrew and Yiddish folk songs was detrimental to this … in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, Russian, Hebrew and Yiddish) usually impede access for the general …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical performance of the three verses. The precious Leo … of Jacobson’s article, one sees how the allure of Rossi’s Hebrew compositions to modern scholars impacts the … [2] I am thankful to Prof. Shulamit Elitzur from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for enlightening me about …
Dan Deutsch
… Deutsch is currently an Azrieli postdoctoral fellow in the Musicology Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. His …
David Conway
… is an Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College, and was a … Studies in 2019-20. His publications include Jewry in Music: Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to … opera company HGO. (Photo credit: Smerus ) … British music historian … David Conway …
Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… on December 13, 2020 as part of a American Friends of the Hebrew University program, examines (with audio … Prof. Seroussi offers a master class on contemporary Jewish music scholarship and methodology. … Hanukkah … Chanukkah …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… African Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew song, which had developed starting in the sixteenth … patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. Purim, Purim Lanu (Ladino … literary genres in different languages, written and oral. A Hebrew song generates a popular saying combining Hebrew and …
Moshe Cordova
… m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … its activities in Istanbul. The Mafṭirim performed Hebrew poetry set to Turkish classical music on the Sabbaths … became partners during these years, and recorded Ottoman Hebrew music commercially, some of which is presented in …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of … worked under the direction of Prof. Amnon Shiloah of the Hebrew University, an eminent scholar of music in the … her dissertation. The interest in the work of Warkow at the Hebrew University and her interaction with the local …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem … Jews . Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2014. (In Hebrew) Weich-Shahak, Susana. Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of … stage, the project consisted of the full bilingual (English/Hebrew characters) computerization of the original … Aleph cataloging system and in the Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew languages, engaged in this project from 1996 to 1999. …