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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 … that begins with the emancipated and assimilated Jewish communities of the Old World and ends with the integration …
Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… of versions of the holiday classic drawn from different communities and eras. Not only a fascinating lecture, 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 song, which …
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 … and folk tunes of Eastern European and Babylonian Jewish communities. This release, available for streaming here, …
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 … mode of expression with its own variations across Jewish communities, limiting his analysis to melodic material, …
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, … a broad base of invaluable knowledge regarding the Jewish communities of North Morocco, including their rich musical …
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 … for the benefit of the wider scholarly and artistic communities and the broader public. The present report, …
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 … of Jewish liturgical music developed in German-speaking communities parallel to the gradual rise of German music as …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… the article “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the … analyzed in detail in that article. Research of Moroccan Jewish religious music has been largely, if not exclusively, … Moroccan liturgy in comparison to other traditional Jewish communities where a soloist ḥazzan stands out. Singing of …
Jeff Klepper
… Jeff Klepper is an American Jewish Cantor, and one of the pioneers of the … in the HUC campus in New York. He cooperated with a lot of Jewish musicians; His best-known cooperation was with Rabbie … idea was to use music to connect people and create musical communities in the same way folk-music communities were …