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La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… for Performing Arts) conducted by Roumen Tsonev in the CD Jewish Songs from Bulgaria . The song itself starts at … York: Sepher-Hermon Press, 1987. Bunis, David. Voices from Jewish Salonika: Selections from the Judezmo Satirical …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Forgotten Conductor: Heinz Unger and His Search for Jewish Meaning, 1895−1965 . Toronto: University of Toronto … Forgotten Conductor: Heinz Unger and His Search for Jewish Meaning , 1895−1965 seems to question this … insights into what the author labels “the search for Jewish meaning” in his title. After all, Unger’s story …
Dan Deutsch
… Toronto Faculty of Music and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. His dissertation, Music as “Minor … against the backdrop of his social status as part of a Jewish minority. In his current research, he expands the … and socio-cultural experiences within the music of German-Jewish composers in the long nineteenth-century. Photo …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… Song”. For a start, it represents two of the four genres (Jewish, Irish, Italian, and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take … heart of what became Berlin’s true genius and of what was Jewish – or at least ‘Jew-ish’ – about Berlin’s life and … already too many Jews involved in it. We are told that the Jewish moguls of Hollywood promoted a ‘white-picket-fence’ …
David Conway
… Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College, and was a Polonsky Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies in 2019-20. His publications include Jewry … He is a member of the editorial board of the magazine Jewish Renaissance and Chair of the London opera company …
Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… here Prof. Seroussi offers a master class on contemporary Jewish music scholarship and methodology. … Hanukkah … …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… serve as hazzan (cantor) of the new, flourishing Portuguese Jewish community. In 1628, he published in his adopted city … early dissemination in Western Sephardic and North African Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew … the inheritance of a unique creative personality of the Jewish twentieth century who survived adversity against all …
Moshe Cordova
… ma ka m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our … was the move to Istanbul, together with many of the Edirne Jewish community, following the devastation of this city … in 1886. During its heyday in the early twentieth century, Jewish singers from various quarters of Istanbul, as well as …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked … an eminent scholar of music in the Islamic world and of the Jewish musical traditions within it. Warkov wanted to study … an incredibly rich case study to investigate. In Baghdad, Jewish musicians had for generations served as the most …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… we are glad to launch the sixth volume in the Contemporary Jewish Music series, 13 Jewish Folk Tunes, an online world-premiere recording of … exposure to Central European modernism embedded within a Jewish multi-ethnic scene that includes liturgical, …