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David Berger
… Berger received a BA in Religious Studies with a focus in Jewish Studies from the University of Illinois … York to begin his graduate studies. He completed an MA in Jewish Philosophy in 2003 at the Jewish Theological Seminary before continuing on to the …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… library at the New York campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, was “Six Songs from the Jewish Homeland, Arranged for Mixed Voices.” [2] This … somewhat negligible. In 1926 Bloch Publishing Company (“The Jewish Book Concern”), one of the largest and most …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, … I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkenazi tradition, a … it has been used by ethnomusicologists and historians of Jewish music since Idelsohn—to refer not only to a scale, …
Assaf Shelleg
… Schusterman Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology and Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at … previously taught as the visiting Efroymson Scholar in the Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures … and Israel. Shelleg’s award-winning first book Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History …
Haggai Ben-Shammai
… Judaeo-Arabic Bible exegesis and philosophy, history of Jewish communities in Islamic countries, and Islamic … for Judaeo-Arabic Studies (1997-2013); co-director of the Jewish Studies program at St. Petersburg State University … and academic management of projects aimed at enhancing Jewish studies in Russia, and in organizations active in …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … also attested in several medieval manuscripts of the Roman Jewish rite available at the IMHM catalogue. The persistence … early medieval customs were still reproduced among the Jewish intelligentsia in Eastern Europe in the early …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. Friedman’s compositional … out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer camps. Jewish youth first brought her music …
Avi Bar-Eitan
… and entrance examinations, and works as a researcher at the Jewish Music Research Center. Dr. Bar-Eitan is the head of …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a performing stage, even though major … between the religious and mundane spheres in this domestic Jewish ritual. The music for different sections of the …
Max Lempel
… Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1900 into an assimilated Jewish family. He studied at the Akademie für Musik und … of Music . Sources: Hirshberg, Jehoash. Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880-1948: A Social History . …