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The Father of Jewish Musicology and the Natives: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Yemenites
… with the Jewish Music Forum, USA Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s Legacy: Eighty Years after the Publication of … Respondent: Prof. Edwin Seroussi Summary: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn arrived in Jerusalem some time in early 1907. He … in Jewish cultural discourse at the time. Naturally, Idelsohn's primary interest was Yemenite Jewish music, as …
A Crossroads of Jewish Music Scholarship: A. Z. Idelsohn and the Publication of Jewish Music in its Historical Development
… with the Jewish Music Forum, USA Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s Legacy: Eighty Years after the Publication of … Summary: In 1929, musicologist and composer Abraham Zvi Idelsohn published his major study Jewish Music in its … . Viewed today as a foundational work in its field, Idelsohn’s book attempted for the first time to bring …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… allegiance to ideas similar to those exposed by Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, a figure Geshuri respected but also criticized (see the Geshuri-Idelsohn correspondence in the Appendix below). It is the … 1930, 8) Embedded in this convoluted passage is the Idelsohnian core idea of a modern revival based on an …
Leon Algazi
… was sparked by early studies with musicologist Abraham Zvi Idelsohn . One of his first projects in the field was a …
Abraham Goldfaden
… by Eva Heinstein with help from the JMRC staff. Zvi Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden , Translated and …
Yedidyah Admon
… Seminary in Jerusalem under musicologist Abraham Zvi Idelsohn . From 1923 to 1927 Admon studied Music Theory and …
Moshe Nathanson
… division of the Ezra School in Jerusalem, where Abraham Z. Idelsohn was the director of the choir. Sheldon Feinberg, in his book “A Song Without Words” claims that Idelsohn assigned his students to compose words to the …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… acclaimed among cantors even today” (Friedmann 1927: 134). Idelsohn (1929: 266-267) reports that Salomon had “the … b’Yisrael (Hebrew Liturgical Music) . New York: Bitzaron. Idelsohn, Abraham Zevi. 1929. Jewish Music in Its Historical …
Israel Adler
… decades of the 20th century, most especially by Abraham Zvi Idelsohn (1882-1938). Attempting to construct an unilinear … the present demanded a concerted institutional effort that Idelsohn at his time could not have the opportunity to … learning laid down the infrastructure to materialize the Idelsohnian endeavor. At the basis of the foundation of the …
Moses Beregovski
… folk music in particular, differed greatly from Abraham Z. Idelsohn and Lazare Saminsky . Beregovski promoted the …