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Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… piyyut ,' [In Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… life work. The survey also includes a brief general history of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of … with different melodies): The text of this song has a long history and many variants. For a detailed study, see Hazan … [1999] 2003. Echoes of Yesteryear: Reminiscences of Jewish History in the Making: Eretz Yisrael from 1934 to 2000 …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… aim at demonstrating how individuals altered the course of history (“made history”) and how they were affected by it. Yet the concept … miller — Tesler-Mabé sets out to write a “ contextual history ” [sic.] in which a “single historical subject can …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… November 25, 2020. https://robertgreenbergmusic.com/music-history-monday-the-melody-lingers-on-irving-berlin/ Hamm, …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… who maintained a living connection to the tradition. History, however, proved her wrong. Starting in the 1990s, …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… (2015) and Walter Zev Feldman’s Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory (2016). Like those books, New York … in eighty-three recordings over a seven-year slice of history, Rubin evinces no loss of exuberance. As he explores … a couple of paragraphs each on numerous aspects of klezmer history and performance alongside confirmatory excerpts from …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… , Charles Hersch has written an informative and penetrating history of Jews in American jazz music, which should become … complicated subject. Indeed, nearly everything about the history of Jews and jazz music is difficult to categorize, … of Jewry. Virtually the same problem also plagues the history of jazz. Defining racial conceits also skew jazz …
Arabs - Jews - Music
… at least in the intensity that characterized it throughout history, with the rise of the modern …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… inspections of the collections.” (Zachary M. Baker, History of the Jewish Collections at the Vernadsky Library … Besides the aforementioned documents related to the history of the JMRC relation to the Kyiv collection, we …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… to integrate them within the narratives of European music history. Such a comprehensive approach does not … of more general tendencies in Jewish social and cultural history promises to bring fresh insights into long-debated …