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Abraham Goldfaden
… his songs, as well as other popular Jewish and secular music. The initial performances of these musical theater pieces created movement to establish a … folksongs, Eastern European folk and popular music, and Italian and French opera arias. Many of the songs arranged …
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 first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From … Shiloah of the Hebrew University, an eminent scholar of music in the Islamic world and of the Jewish musical …

Europa Rossi
… 17 th centuries. Europa was the sister of composer and musician Salamone Rossi , and the wife of the Jewish … Europa, Jewish singer in late Renaissance Mantua.' in Festa Musicologica: Essays in Honor of George J. Buelow . ed. … 2003 Dubrov, Andy. 'The Barrocade Ensemble Presents: Music from the Ghetto of 16th Century Italy.' …
Israel Adler
… the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études and at the Institut de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and musical studies. During his thirteen-year sojourn in Paris … and Renaissance Italy (e.g. “The Rise of Art Music in the Italian Ghetto,” Jewish Medieval and Renaissance Studies, …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… and penetrating history of Jews in American jazz music, which should become a first stop for those wishing to … nearly everything about the history of Jews and jazz music is difficult to categorize, analyze, or even begin to … for ethnic stage characters to perform, including Jewish, Italian, Irish, and also Black characters. Gershwin’s first …
Léibele Schwartz
… on March 22, 1928 as Yehudah Leib Kirzner. He began his music studies as a child with his father, Yaakov, who was a … (father) and Eduardo Bonessi , two distinguished musicians from the tango scene. He carried out his first … York City. In New York he studied voice with the renowned Italian tenor Tito Schipa . He even appeared alongside Judy …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… development against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon … 1724 from the transalpine tradition and had embraced the music aesthetics of the surrounding culture. The balanced … and by all of the “common” versions, except the Southern (Italian) one. This cadence is a quotation of the motifs used …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … 1794). Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common … and from the Comtat Venaissin (today Provence, France), the Italian communities of Casale Monferrato and Sienna, and the …