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The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in … activities led to the institutionalization of musicology at Israeli universities and colleges, developing a focus on the … recorded items (each one comprising several units, such as songs and dialogues), which, although already digitized and …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… and North African versions in the article entitled “Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardic Melodies … Hebrew Bible contest and in 1964, Hocha went on to win the Israeli Hebrew Bible contest (see above his picture with … of the many meetings of this type characteristic of early Israeli musical ethnography. They rendered precious …
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 Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis … publication was planned as a collaboration with the late Israeli musicologist of Latvian origin Joachim Braun (Bar … introduction as much as it pertains to Zionism. Scholars of Israeli culture will find this discussion pertinent as it …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… identity. In fact, they comprise a refrain dividing the song into “strophes,” a peculiar feature discussed widely in … Biography of Salamone Rossi at the JMRC website Song of the month: Elohim hashivenu - A liturgical insertion … hazzan Azelio Servi: A quote from the journal Il Vessillo Israelitico LXX/1922 (XIX-XX), 297: PITIGLIANO […] Oltre …
Moshe Cordova
… Italian monarchy. They named their congregation Comunità Israelitico-Straniera di Rito Spagnuolo-Portoghese di … piyyutim (religious poems), Shirei Israel be-Eretz Haqedem “Songs of Israel in the East,” together with Binyamin Bekhar … and Shim’on Uzziel.” This event was transmitted live by the Israeli Radio from the Ohel Moed synagogue, the central and …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… life, she treasured within her memory the Judeo-Spanish songs of the North Moroccan Sephardic community, playing a … During her youth, she was surrounded by the women’s songs of the Jewish community of Tetuan. Romances (ballads) … 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
… opening of the Russian and Ukrainian archives of Judaica to Israelis in the post-Soviet period. Had Adler read Zachary … the time the Librarian and Director of the Archive of Folk Song at the American Folklife Center of the Library of … At the same time, we engaged in a collaborative Ukrainian/Israeli project in the framework of the scientific …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… host society and also, inculcated with hegemonic values of Israeli citizenship. Meseret (“Tradition”), the brainchild … immigrants. Many found it difficult to integrate into the Israeli economy and society, due to language barriers, … interpreted) symbolic value. Chapter 5 discusses song texts, highlighting the centrality of “wax and gold”—a …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… in Beregovski’s Evreiskiie narodnyie pesni [Jewish Folk Songs] – the collection that Beregovski prepared for … century, becoming an emblematic signifier of modern Israeli culture. As Mazor has shown in his groundbreaking … the first section of this nign is very similar to the Israeli song “Or zaru’a la-tzadiq” (Psalms 97, 11: “Light is …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… as a choir with the rhythmic melody of the Arab song “Ya um al-‘abaya” (يا أم العباية) that was made famous … They were joined in the performance by a new generation of Israeli-born and Israeli-educated Moroccan Jews, the offspring of a still …