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Oren Roman
… Researcher of Jewish Ashkenazic culture. Researcher of Yiddish literature, Kreitman … photo was taken from Katz Cebter website. … Researcher of Jewish Ashkenazic culture … Ashkenazi … Oren Roman …
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 narrative describes how the first Jewish family (Abraham, Sarah and Isaac) came close to …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked … an eminent scholar of music in the Islamic world and of the Jewish musical traditions within it. Warkov wanted to study … and marginalized by mainstream (Western-oriented) Israeli culture. Only one Israeli institution— the Israeli Broadcast …
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 … them had immigrated. Against the paradigm whereas Yiddish culture had a “one-way” circulation, from the Old to the New …
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 … ethos of the Zionist movement and the Israeli culture that emerged from it. Even when he recorded in …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… Gözlem Gazetcilik Basin ve Yayin, Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Culture Research Center, 2009. (Book, 5 CDs and DVD) The … connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s …
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 this …
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 … land [stomp], forced us out of our homes [stomp], but our culture is something they cannot steal. When we stamp our …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… “From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” is a … für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Germany) and the Jewish Music Research Centre (Hebrew University of … 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 … Melngailis collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics makes public a forgotten … The introduction offers English readers a survey of Jewish culture in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, …