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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 …
Had Gadya
… the modern fate of the song with in contemporary Israeli musical repertoire. H ad Gadya was incorporated to the … as Ms. ON 859 4/280 of the Institute for the Research of Italian Jewry in Jerusalem.The uniqueness of this version … in her album London (1989). The melody was based off the Italian song Alla fiera dell’est (‘At the Eastern Fair’) …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… begins with the introductory “khapt im, nempt im” line. The music to this opening section is more dense than in the rest … points out the connection between the song's theme and the musicality of the melody. In his view, the altered Dorian … singer, Kremer was born in Belz, Bessarabia, and sang on Italian and Russian opera stages. At the advice of the poet …
4. Las Tablas de la Ley (The Tablets of the Law)
… melody has been widely documented and also appears in the Italian Sephardic traditions of Livorno and Florence, so we … example of the vicissitudes of Sephardic oral memory. The music of ‘The Tablets of the Law’ has been preserved among …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali Herz Imber’s poem … Yigdal , see below under Ashkenazi hypothesis) with the Italian predecessors (see below Italian Renaissance hypothesis) could be explored. Many …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … start, it represents two of the four genres (Jewish, Irish, Italian, and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take on assumed black music tastes) on which all of Berlin’s early works centred. …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness through music challenged the normative status of traditions of old. … volume 12, album 2 of the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music titled Legend of Toil and Celebration . This album …