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Stefanie Mockert
… from Humboldt University, Berlin, is a researcher at the Hebrew University's Jewish Music Research Centré. Her studies focus on the … perspective inspired by philosophical aesthetics, social history, and critical theory. Mockert has been involved in …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… in a car, driving on a mountain road that winds down along the Lebanese coastline, overlooking the Mediterranean … With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone is the … made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew … Yiẓḥak , or ‘Akedah ) has assumed an important function in Jewish religion and culture since Antiquity. This renowned … This question touches upon an important matter – the history of Jewish worship – which seems to have changed over …
The Bergamasca: Some Jewish Links?
… A connection between the bergamasca , the popular Renaissance dance, and Jewish synagogue music? The idea had first been suggested … 96-98, 266). The following is an attempt to examine the history of the bergamasca and its links - …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… As Israel Adler has shown in a lifetime of work, the history of Jewish music is really a set of complex, interlocking …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Debbie Friedman, the Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … The Lion King (1994). These films were milestones in the history of popular music in feature animated films. Alan …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, … The recording is from online resources associated with the “History of the American Cantorate” project (Slobin 1984–86). …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… … In 1926, in “New Palestinean [sic] Folk Songs” – one of the earliest Zionist songbooks published in America – A. W. … into obscurity and are only known to experts in the history of modern Hebrew song. Na’aleh L’artzeinu is only … version of the melody, perhaps one sung without text as a dance niggun – more about this later. The text of the song …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… to a barrage of factual and fictional information that, in the Internet Age, circulates virally in diverse variants, … culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its … sons of Rishon le-Tziyyon perceived in this song their own history, and sang it with great pride [here the song is …
Karev Yom
… I am still living the life of those times… Theodore Bikel On October 2, … of the earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after … by Joshua Kulp from The Schechter Haggadah: Art, History and Commentary (Jerusalem, 2009): Draw near the day …