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Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… here Prof. Seroussi offers a master class on contemporary Jewish music scholarship and methodology. … Chanukkah … …
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 …
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’ …
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: 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 …
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 …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… 49 … 58 … 710 … Jewish liturgy evolved in a multidirectional process. … verses from diverse psalms are a widespread phenomenon in Jewish liturgy, the text under discussion is unique in that … The precious Leo Levi recorded collection of Italian Jewish musical traditions includes four versions of Elohim …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the … Melngailis collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics makes public a forgotten … Karnes took upon himself the daunting task of editing the Jewish items found in two notebooks from Melngailis’s …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… for the Ninth of Av among the Sephardic and Oriental Jewish communities. The identity of the author is unknown, … Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim Beinart on the … consequences of migrations and other social dislocations on Jewish liturgical traditions. Before addressing the …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… para-liturgical and non-religious music of the non-European Jewish communities whose members relocated to Israel after … to the preservation and research of these distinctive Jewish musical repertoires. Her activities led to the … universities and colleges, developing a focus on the Jewish musical practices in the Middle East. Significantly, …