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German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to … the language of music, of new evolving aesthetic ideals, of Jewish public emotions, of cross-cultural intersections … established in major urban centers as a by product of Jewish urbanization and the rapid emergence of a Jewish …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library … has attracted the attention of musicians and scholars of Jewish music ever since they resurfaced in the aftermath of … of sound and ethnographic documentation of Eastern European Jewish music and folklore. The complicated paths of …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… making was an area of cultural expression in which the Jewish-Muslim encounter was intense. Shared Muslim-Jewish [musical] spaces (regardless of ethnicities) have … Iran and Central Asia shared with Muslim, Christian and Jewish musicians within a geographical area spanning from …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of Moroccan Jewish folk singer Alicia (Benassayag) Bendayan on Friday, … father worked as a pregonero (town crier) within the Jewish community, announcing daily calls to prayer within …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Netsky’s Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth Century Jewish Philadelphia (2015) and Walter Zev Feldman’s Klezmer: … resource—he offers background on the general history of Jewish-interest instrumental records in the early twentieth … a common mode of expression with its own variations across Jewish communities, limiting his analysis to melodic …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… Smith, on the other hand, spoke forcefully about his own Jewish religious faith and practices, including his own bar … be considered a Jew? Whose music should be considered a “Jewish” contribution to jazz? Either, both, or neither? … sees that the only means of authenticating Artie Shaw as Jewish, and Willie “The Lion” Smith as not Jewish, would be …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …