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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 … . The various synagogues were conducted according to the customs of the respective countries, and their traditional …
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 … practices of Middle Eastern Jews. While everyone from the Jewish side was familiar with Hakham Raphael Taboush and/or …
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 … rabbinic elites. In the twentieth century, scholars of the Jewish past have moved far beyond this constricting …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its practice at ceremonies of Jewish institutions, synagogues, schools and youth … throughout the European, Middle Eastern and American Jewish diasporas, was a crucial component in the nourishing …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… 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 … that the genre of textless melodies was an old tradition in Jewish life, and the leaders of Hasidism made broad use of …

Badekns (LKT)
… 49 . “Badekns: Ceremony performed prior to a traditional Jewish wedding in which the bride is veiled by the groom in … Ukraine, 1820s-1830s]. Lifschutz, p. 45 . “A Jewish wedding in the shtetl was a holiday... When Arish the … Poland, 1890s]. Teytel 1966b, p. 137 . “ Badekns . (Jewish) veiling of the bride prior to the wedding ceremony.” …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… , Judith R. Cohen and Risto Pekka Pennanen In 2008 the Jewish Music Research Centre released a 4-CD package … the geographical distribution of recordings to Ottoman Jewish centers beyond Constantinople/Istanbul. Moreover, the … by Alfred A. Zara and Robert Bedford as Traditions and customs of the Sephardic Jews of Salonica . New York: …