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A Recovered Voice from the Past
… economics, politics, and society. Yet something of that texts and tears, martyrs and saints approach still governs … by Jewish Studies—a disembodied male mind, torn from the contexts of his family and social context, sanctified as a … Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, the man and his work in their historical, social and intellectual contexts. James Loeffler …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… for remembering melodies that he used to fit to the texts of the zemiros [Sabbath table songs] and to recycle … was to create a Hebrew opera based on the Hebrew music and historical Jewish text. For this I wrote two plays, one, …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… with the Western Sephardic tradition, it contains unique texts such as the selection of Psalm verses whose music is … Hebrew). Idelsohn, Abraham Zvi. 1929. Jewish Music in its Historical Development. New York: Holt. Source of …
1. Oh Lovely Parrot!
… There the parrot flew and settled down. Ayyayya Texts of this kiḷippāṭṭu (“parrot song”) genre are found in … or birds may symbolize the Portuguese, who were the only historical enemies of the Kerala Jews. Though there is no … birds pecking out each other’s feathers may reflect historical rivalries among the different Kerala Jewish …