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Becoming Hebrew
… 2 … 10 … 1 … 42609 … New York … The Creation of a Jewish National Culture in Ottoman Palestine … Becoming Hebrew …
"Tugat ha-Filologim ve- Kishlei ha-Nisayon Likbor et ha-Zehut veha-Tarbut ha-Yehudit-Aravit"
… Sorrows and the Failure of Attempts to Bury Arab-Jewish Identity and Culture’) … Sephardi … "Tugat ha-Filologim ve- Kishlei …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… and Russian elites, as well as from Ukrainian peasant culture. A close examination of these reference points … as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is … is highlighted: Textless songs have probably been common in Jewish life for a long time. This could be connected with …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel Audio Examples
… Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited … in the Warkov dissertation “ The Urban Arabic Repertoire of Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel: Instrumental Improvisation and Culture Change .” These CDs are intended to be used …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… This generational tension between well-to-do Baghdadi Jewish families and their youngsters who loved music and … musicians—still prevalent in early-twentieth century Iraqi Jewish society—as well the shifts in attitudes towards … vital role Jews played in shaping the modern Iraqi musical culture. Not surprisingly, al-Ghazali married the great …
Haim Louk
… at Em Habanim school in Casablanca, which integrated Jewish religious studies with general education, including … The curriculum encompassed Talmudic studies, piyyutim (Jewish liturgical poetry), traditional chanting of Psalms, … Israeli musicians. In 2011, he was awarded the Ministry of Culture's Prize for Music in recognition of his …
Sara Levi-Tanai
… to dance and theater in Israel. Her works, deeply rooted in Jewish and Yemenite traditions, significantly shaped … Levi-Tanai was born in Jerusalem to a family of Yemenite Jewish immigrants. Her parents emigrated from Yemen as part … performed internationally, bringing Israeli and Yemenite culture to global audiences. Members of the Yemenite "Inbal" …
Mapping of German Liturgical Music
… The Jewish Music Research Centre is proud to present a map of … sources of liturgical music form the German-speaking Jewish world. This map derives from the online data base available in the website of the Jewish Music Research Centre. The project was carried out in …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one … the special favor of the Duke who allowed her, as the only Jewish pupil, to visit his German primary school. All her … variant. Although, Libau was a modern city with German culture, my father picked for me a Lithuanian teacher in a …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … and saints, or Leidensgeschichte and Geistesgeschichte . Jewish Studies in this formulation consisted of the … far beyond this constricting narrative to recover Jewish culture, economics, politics, and society. Yet something of …