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The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… “From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist … Kiwi (1908-1992),” is a joint venture of the Europäisches Zentrum für Jüdische Musik (Hochschule für Musik, Theater … In the footsteps of Robert Lachmann as well as Abraham Zvi Idelsohn (1882-1938), another pioneer of music research in …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… 2 … “Bore ‘ad ana” (“Creator until when?”) is one of the most … a late medieval poem. A loose leaf in the Cairo Genizah contains our poem (highlighted) attesting to its … The versions from Salonika and Aleppo recorded by Idelsohn ( HOM , vol. 4, no. 135 and 177 respectively) show …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the … task in the 1920s and 1930s in Latvia after a long stay in Uzbekistan. (In 2015 The Archive of Latvian Folklore made the … is well documented in Levin (1988, 1996). Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, himself born and raised in Kurland, included in …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… The collection of historical Jewish field recordings at the Vernadsky National Library … performer interested in them. Yet, if properly contextualized, these scattered and unsystematic archeological sound … recordings and transcriptions made by Abraham Zvi Idelsohn that were carried out approximately at the same …
The Idelsohn Project
… Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in the world is … to happiness surfaces without fail at weddings and bar mitzvahs across the globe as a symbol of unalloyed joy. Yet few … new text set to an existing Hassidic niggun) Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, was a European-born Jewish musician who insisted …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… Study and commentaries: Rivka Havassy and Edwin Seroussi Research … at the EMI Archive Trust , heir to the Gramophone and Zonophone companies, represents a further breakthrough in … Research Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. … Idelsohn, Abraham Zvi 1923 >>> Gesänge der orientalischen …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… The passing of the founder of the Yiddish theater spawned a touching emotional response by Idelsohn. In grieving Goldfaden , Idelsohn projected into … in Jerusalem. Source Text Abraham Goldfaden By Abraham Z. Ben Yehuda [Idelsohn] Hashkafa , February 7, 1908, p. 1-2 …
32. La agonía del amante Rosa mia (CES)
… The opening of this song, “Conğa mía conğa mía / chichek de mi cabeza” (“conğa” means “rosebud” in Turkish; the name of the … Salonica. The melody appears in a musical transcription by Idelsohn ( 1923 , no. 484) with the same opening stanza. …
35. Toma mi alma y tómala (CES)
… A rare cluster of stanzas with a well-known refrain. The … included in Amor y muerte (PF 034/06; Hemsi 1995, no. 84; Idelsohn 1923 , no. 480). The refrain also appears in El …
70. El barón despreciado ( La Gloria)
… One of the most well-known modern Ladino songs in Western European style. It was also recorded … III, no. 15) and by Bosanski Instrumentalni i Pjevački Terzett (see below no. 75 ). This recording is unique due to … versions see Bernheim 1920 (reproduced without credit in Idelsohn 1923 , no. 498); Attias 1972 , no. 77; Hemsi 1995 , …