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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 …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… “From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish … 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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… the market, he was by no means the only artist recorded. For this reason, locating and releasing the rich repository of Judeo-Spanish recordings at the EMI Archive Trust , heir to the Gramophone and Zonophone … on November 22, 2020 at the Confederation House in Jerusalem. The event featured Hadass Pal-Yarden, one of …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… and Geistesgeschichte . Jewish Studies in this formulation consisted of the commemoration of a people’s … located a major cache of Idelsohniana in the Idelsohn Archive at the Music Department of the National Library of … Library of Israel, covered certain aspects of Idelsohn’s Jerusalem period (1907-1921, with some interruptions) with …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… This document, in the form of a synoptic table, incorporates three versions of … consent of the authors. Photographs from the Idelsohn Archive (numbered MUS 0004) are reproduced here courtesy of … me in peace. I was still of the opinion that I must go to Jerusalem and there, only there was the cradle of the …