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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? … the first had contributed mightily to that art as players, composers, producers, and distributers. In great public …
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 … refers in his writings with admiraton to the cantors and composers from Edirne who resettled in Istanbul. According …
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 … experiences within the music of German-Jewish composers in the long nineteenth-century. Photo …
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 …
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 … with my phone, was my inquiry about one of the most famous composers of pizmonim , Hakham Raphael Taboush …
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 … is one of several works by Jewish and few non-Jewish composers (such as Lidarti) composed on behalf of the …
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 musicians going back at least to …
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 … the ocean back to the lands from where the poets and composers who composed them had immigrated. Against the …
Heinrich Schalit and Paul Ben-Haim in Munich
… to an abrupt halt an important development in the field of Jewish music in Munich, especially with regard to the … Ben-Haim. A study of musical developments in the Munich Jewish community of the 1920's may provide some indication … to Israel. … 9505 … Heinrich Schalit … Paul Ben-Haim … Composers … Jewish composers … Munich … Germany … Nazi …
Felix Mendelssohn - Gustav Mahler: Two Borderline Cases of German-Jewish Assimilation
… essay intends to examine two individual cases of the German-Jewish symbiosis, two borderline cases of attempted … … Mendelssohn … Mahler, Gustav … Mahler … German Jews … Jewish composers … Assimilation … Austria … Germany … Felix …