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The Idelsohn Project
… was written as a Zionist song with political overtones in Jerusalem in 1918. Its "composer" (i.e. the promoter of a … racial theories about Jews and his ethnographic search for a primordial ur-sound that Zionism needed to recover to … Most of our resources derive from the magnificent Idelsohn archive that his family graciously donated to the Jewish …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… 5783 (2023) I found a note that Mr. Moshe Goelman from Jerusalem sent me around 2007 or 2008. He wrote at that … tune I recorded a few years ago at the Phonoteque [Sound Archive] of the National Library. The opening words of the … the Arabic language with the same tune. The person who performed the song could not provide details about the tune. I …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… prayers and piyyutim (songs of religious content) for Sabbaths, Holydays and life cycle events recorded in … singers belonging to Middle Eastern communities living in Jerusalem. Isaac Lurie (1875-1930), curator of the Museum of … of Jewish materials. This section of the Ukrainian sound archive in Kyiv has attracted less attention in comparison …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics makes public a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician … in Latvia after a long stay in Uzbekistan. (In 2015 The Archive of Latvian Folklore made the entire Melngailis … Ben-Yehuda, Netiva. 1990. Autobiographia beshir vazemer . Jerusalem: Keter. Bergeovskii, Moshe and Itzik Fefer 1938. …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… most ubiquitous qinot (dirges) in the order of prayers for the Ninth of Av among the Sephardic and Oriental Jewish … occasion of his seventieth birthday , ed. Aharon Mirski, Jerusalem: Magnes, 1988, pp. 337-348). Figure 2. 'Bore … and Jerusalem, as shown by various recordings at the Sound Archives of the National Library of Israel as well as in …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Berlin School of Comparative Musicology. Lachmann was also forced to leave Germany in 1936 and settled in Jerusalem. There he founded the Archive for Oriental Music at the Hebrew University. Edith …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… of different texts suggested a comprehensive method for addressing the musical aspects of Hebrew liturgical … a fast day in Jewish tradition marking the breach of Jerusalem’s fortifications leading to the destruction of … captured in field recordings and stored at the Sound Archives of the National Library of Israel. Three such …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… carefully stored in the shelves of the Lebanese Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research (AMAR). Located in the … out from the several thousand 78rpm discs held in the archive shelves and be placed onto the spindle of an old … Hebrew Poetry points to Iraq (especially Baghdad) and Jerusalem as the main centers of the text’s printed …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… to Niggun ‘Akedah. It will assess their thematic content, formal aspects, as well as their cultural contexts and … for recordings of ‘Akedah piyyutim at the National Sound Archives (NSA) at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem has yielded only one recording. [32] It is likely …
The Archives of the World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine, 1936-1940, at the Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem
… approach to the musics of Israel. These two individual efforts included attempts to create in Jerusalem institutional tools for the advancement of Jewish … Palestine in 1935, to create at the Hebrew University the 'Archive of Oriental Music.' Both these endeavours, though …