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Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… for ethnic stage characters to perform, including Jewish, Italian, Irish, and also Black characters. Gershwin’s first …
Moshe Cordova
… set to Turkish classical music on the Sabbaths at the Italian Synagogue in Galata. This synagogue was also known … since at least the late 1910s. It was founded by Jews of Italian origin who had broken away from the main body of the … community, placing themselves under the protection of the Italian monarchy. They named their congregation Comunità …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… start, it represents two of the four genres (Jewish, Irish, Italian, and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take on assumed …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… Three Festivals and High Holidays, according to the minhag Italiani , also known as minhag Bnei Roma or minhag lo’azim … seven words. When exactly these verses entered the mahzor Italiani is hard to determine, but at the very latest one … verses. The precious Leo Levi recorded collection of Italian Jewish musical traditions includes four versions of …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… the publication of her dissertation on the art of the Italian madrigal in 1933, she emigrated to Italy and from …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… and from the Comtat Venaissin (today Provence, France), the Italian communities of Casale Monferrato and Sienna, and the …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… of “Nuestro Señor Eloheinu” was circulating within the Italian Sephardic communities as early as the beginning of … example of “Yarad el hay” recorded by Leo Levy and sung by Italian cantor Simon Sacerdote of Livorno (first 33 seconds … has been removed from the liturgical context common to the Italian versions. Instead, according to the testimony of …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… from the 15th to the 17th Century . Milano: Associazione italiana amici dell’Università di Gerusalemme. Weinberger, …
The Magical and Theurgic Interpretation of Music in Jewish Sources from the Renaissance to Hassidism (Hebrew)
… of music as a means of power. This attitude emerges among Italian Jewish authors and seems to be influenced by …
Three Musical Ceremonies for Hôšanā Rabbah in the Jewish Community of Casale Monferrato (1732, 1733, 1735) (Hebrew)
… communities … Manuscripts … Eighteenth (18th) Century … Italian Jews … Scores … Liturgical works … Oratorios … …