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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … from Melngailis’s collection (nos. 65 and 74). Melngailis started collecting Jewish songs in 1899 in Keidan (Lithuania), … publication was planned as a collaboration with the late Israeli musicologist of Latvian origin Joachim Braun (Bar …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… (“customs” or “traditions”) once the printing press started to produce prayer books in rapidly increasing numbers … return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical performance of the three verses. The precious Leo … hazzan Azelio Servi: A quote from the journal Il Vessillo Israelitico LXX/1922 (XIX-XX), 297: PITIGLIANO […] Oltre …
Moshe Cordova
… m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … Italian monarchy. They named their congregation Comunità Israelitico-Straniera di Rito Spagnuolo-Portoghese di … the early twentieth century, Jewish singers from various quarters of Istanbul, as well as from various cities of the …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of … of these musicians moved to Israel in the early 1950s, part of the Jewish exodus from Arab lands, which had become … and marginalized by mainstream (Western-oriented) Israeli culture. Only one Israeli institution— the Israeli …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem … daily calls to prayer within the streets of the Jewish Quarter. During her youth, she was surrounded by the women’s … Due to pressures toward homogenization under a burgeoning Israeli national culture, the Judeo-Spanish songs of …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of … collection continue to this day, three decades after it started. The Jewish Music Research Centre (JMRC) is one of the … opening of the Russian and Ukrainian archives of Judaica to Israelis in the post-Soviet period. Had Adler read Zachary …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and music. The neighborhood had grown around an absorption … host society and also, inculcated with hegemonic values of Israeli citizenship. Meseret (“Tradition”), the brainchild … camps in Sudan—was housed in a nearby abandoned kindergarten. The center became home to older men who spun cloth on …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… of its contents in the wider context of Hasidic music research is a desideratum. The present essay, focusing … and will be updated as new information is gathered. It is part of the JMRC project of publishing a critical edition … century, becoming an emblematic signifier of modern Israeli culture. As Mazor has shown in his groundbreaking …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… This is a short extract of the article “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the recordings … They were joined in the performance by a new generation of Israeli-born and Israeli-educated Moroccan Jews, the …
Abraham Salman
… the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a child in Baghdad’s school for blind Jewish … arranged for qanun. He also composed music for films and participated in several genre-bending recordings. Among such projects were his celebrated collaboration with the Israeli rocker Danny Sanderson and the Kaveret Ensemble in …