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Gesture, Dance and Melody in Traditional Ashkenazi Culture
… The Fifteenth World Congress Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Session: Ashkenazi traditions: the … European, Germanic tradition based on set figures, and a Jewish tradition based on expressive gesture. This paper … … Gesture, Dance and Melody in Traditional Ashkenazi Culture …
In Which Direction Do Hebrews Play Music?: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Musical Aesthetics of Zionism
… The Fifteenth World Congress Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Special panel (Plenary of … Languages and Arts Section) In collaboration with the Jewish Music Forum, USA Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s … history of cultural Zionism and the formation of Israeli culture. Scholars of Hebrew literature have focused …
The Father of Jewish Musicology and the Natives: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Yemenites
… The Fifteenth World Congress Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Special panel (Plenary of … Languages and Arts Section) In collaboration with the Jewish Music Forum, USA Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s … capturing what he thought was the entirety of this exotic culture. This was no doubt a result of ardent national …
Avraham Soltes
… many cultural and educational activities that interpreted Jewish art, music, and literature. He was chairman of the National Jewish Music Council from 1963 to 1969 and a member of the … after week, he interwove the threads of Israeli history and culture with its musical heritage and that of Judaism at …
Ramon Tasat
… including opera and more, but he mainly sings from the rich culture of the Sephardic Jews. He is the cantor of Shirat Hanefesh (Song of the Soul), an emerging Jewish congregation in southern Montgomery County, MD. He is … also the president of Shalshelet: The Foundation for New Jewish Liturgical Music. (The picture was taken from Tasat's …
Viktor Ullmann
… individual musicians were preserved, shedding light on the culture and participants of the musical life in Terezín. … them to H.G. Adler after the war. Ullmann’s interest in Jewish themes peaked for the first time in Terezín, …
Esther R. Warkov
… seminal contributions to the study of Arab music and Arab-Jewish musicians in Iraq and Israel feature prominently on … website . She has also contributed biographies of Iraqi-Jewish musicians for this website. Warkov received a … improvisation by these musicians as an indicator of culture change. Warkov’s research and musical analysis …
Akiva Zimmermann
… immersed himself in the world of Hebrew books and Hebrew culture at its best. He was well versed in literature and the press and a great scholar of all Jewish and Israeli beings. He knew many of Israel's leaders … personally, particularly regarding their relationship to Jewish tradition and beliefs. Zimmerman had an immense …
Amnon Netzer
… was a leading authority on Iranian history and culture as well as Persian and Judeo-Persian languages. … biography can be viewed at Amnon Netzer Center For Iranian Jewish History And Heritage' s website. Autobiography by …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … as a scholar is still a major gap in the historiography of Jewish music. Born in Myslowitz, Upper Silesia, then part of … Belarus, and his exposure to the Haskalah and modern German culture that spread to the new Jewish settlements of …