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«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, the composer Solomon Rosowsky published a … creative tension at the root of modern Russian-Jewish culture as a whole: the conflict between Russian imperial … Palestine and the path of Jewish nationalism, others chose Germany and the United States and the varied paths of …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… Studying Hatikvah shows how a distinct Zionist music culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its … of the struggling surrounding non-Jewish nations, Poland, Germany as well as the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires. …
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 … against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises … documented in 1724 and 1733) found in South and West Germany, West of the Rhine river (See image no. 1) and in …
The Training of Hazzanim in Nineteenth-Century Germany
… 9613 … 19th (Nineteenth) Century … 19th century jewish history … Jewish Culture Germany … Hazzanut … Hazzanim - Cantors … Cantorial …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… great significance of the ‘Akedah narrative in Ashkenazi culture, as expressed through the poems that were sung to … Yiẓḥak , or ‘Akedah ) has assumed an important function in Jewish religion and culture since Antiquity. This renowned … emerged during the tenth century in present day southern Germany and northern France. However, it also acquired two …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the … ethos of the Zionist movement and the Israeli culture that emerged from it. Even when he recorded in … Moroccan was Jewish or Muslim) invited him to perform in Germany. Mwijo adamantly refused to play in Germany because …
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, … that musical diversity is the natural state of Jewish culture. Lidarti’s setting was a case exemplifying this … materials in Holland, Italy, France, Great Britain and Germany, not only in libraries and secured archives but also …
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 … land [stomp], forced us out of our homes [stomp], but our culture is something they cannot steal. When we stamp our … “The Life-Histories of Megaliths in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany).” World Archaeology 30/1: 23-38. Lino, Lisa. 2009. …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… “From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” is a … Musik (Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Germany) and the Jewish Music Research Centre (Hebrew … musicology and Jewish music, and a mediator between German culture and scholarship and the nascent Israeli Jewish …
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 … The introduction offers English readers a survey of Jewish culture in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, … 1850s, decades after this practice was well established in Germany, but almost half a century before the first …