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The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… in Hebrew) for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, a fast day in Jewish tradition marking the breach of Jerusalem’s … this date was associated with other catastrophes in Jewish history. In spite of its prominence in Jewish historical memory, this fast day has not generated …
Ben-Zion (Yisrael Noach) Kapov-Kagan
… the United States, he served as hazzan at the Ocean Parkway Jewish Center in New York, and subsequently at the Concourse … He also served for a period of time as president of the Jewish Ministers and Cantors Association. Kapov-Kagan was …
Clara Wenz
… project chronicles the present and past lives of a Syrian-Jewish musical record which was released by the Lebanese … Academic Foundation), 2016-2019 Mildred Loss Studentship, Jewish Music Institute (JMI), SOAS, 2015-2019 Employment … and Landscapes Lost to Conflict: My Journey with an Arab-Jewish Baidaphon Record”, Workshop Beginnings and Legacies …
Stefanie Mockert
… Berlin, is a researcher at the Hebrew University's Jewish Music Research Centré. Her studies focus on the … the joined research projects with the European Center for Jewish Music, Hanover: “ From Berlin to Jerusalem and back - The letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson- Kiwi (1908-1992) ” …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long … as elsewhere in the Arab world during the Nahda era, Jewish musicians played an active role in the performance … practices of Middle Eastern Jews. While everyone from the Jewish side was familiar with Hakham Raphael Taboush and/or …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common source, … proposed that musical diversity is the natural state of Jewish culture. Lidarti’s setting was a case exemplifying … Synagogue in Amsterdam, is one of several works by Jewish and few non-Jewish composers (such as Lidarti) …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the … and died on April 30, 2020. He came, as do many Moroccan Jewish performing artists and composers, from a family of … Mwijo, following the long-standing tradition of Moroccan Jewish musicians keeping their cards close to their chests, …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness through music challenged the normative status of … of old. Browsing through my private collection of Jewish songsters in search for new songs for Passover for my …

The Announcement of the Institute of Jewish Music in Jerusalem by A. Z. Idelsohn and S. Z. Rivlin in 1910 (Hebrew)
… 9434 … The Announcement of the Institute of Jewish Music in Jerusalem by A. Z. Idelsohn and S. Z. Rivlin …