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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… annotated edition. A lengthy introduction provides ample historical and musical contexts. Karnes did not spare any … song enthusiasts. The website (in Hebrew only) provides recordings, texts, and original non-Hebrew songs (in the … Melngailis Jewish collection deserves praise for the rich historical contextualization provided by its insightful …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… many respects if one takes into consideration the socio-historical context of her life-achievements: a woman and a … section of her estate (letters and her voluminous field recordings) has already been endowed to the National Library … of this unique individual as well as to assemble a critical historical narrative highlighting the development of her …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… in Jewish history. In spite of its prominence in Jewish historical memory, this fast day has not generated nearly as … music in general), Avenary placed “She’eh ne’esar” at an historical point when, in his view, a different, new pattern … by looking into the oral traditions captured in field recordings and stored at the Sound Archives of the National …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… AMAR holds one of the largest existing collections of historical records from the Nahda time, the period of … 2006, 59-61) [2] I had made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city … Badriyya Sa‘ada). However, most of them sang in Arabic and recordings of them performing Jewish religious hymns in …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… an antiquarian such as Birnbaum would find them worthy of historical interest. Even the “father” of Jewish music … ignited a renewed interest in written music sources of historical European Jewish communities. Driven by a … item, more than four decades after its release. These recordings were later reissued in cassettes, CD s and …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… by its reproduction in songsters and later on in commercial recordings initiated and supported by American Jewish … arranged for two voices. Cochava Shahar and Uri Levy made a historical recording of this song in 1970, in front of the … how songs can survive again and again against all historical odds. Lyrics The original song by David Edelstadt …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… notwithstanding recent publications of intricate cultural-historical scholarship concerning the Binding of Isaac … between 1840 and the Holocaust period, and two recent audio recordings. The Narrative The story of the Binding of … 1967, 7–13). These two new concepts reflect significant historical and cultural aspects of Jewish existence in …
Between Tradition and Modernity
… role of the congregation during the prayer services.” Recordings of a selection from Maier Levi’s transcriptions, … According to Hazzan Maier Levi of Esslingen, at the historical Jewish Orphanage of Esslingen, November 10, 2019. …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… , released by Rounder Records in 2000 , an edition of the historical Moroccan Jewish recordings of made by Paul Bowles and housed in the Library …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… coplas , a form that offers poetic commentary on historical events and Jewish festivities of the yearly … (informative, narrative songs), due to its recounting of historical events. 7 Textual Content Though many stanzas of … Analysis of Performances There are a number of commercial recordings of El incendio de Saloniki that have been …