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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? … an authentic Jew. Basic racial assumptions surrounding identity complicate the telling of nearly every facet of the …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to … the language of music, of new evolving aesthetic ideals, of Jewish public emotions, of cross-cultural intersections … is often conceived as entailing the erosion of a unique identity and the proposal of urgent actions to re-instate …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… volunteer in Meseret , a center that supported traditional Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and … around an absorption center ( merkaz klita ), where new Jewish immigrants are housed, taught Hebrew, supported in … the complexities of meaning-making and cultural identity among immigrants labeled “ falashas ” (foreigners) …
Jeff Klepper
… Jeff Klepper is an American Jewish Cantor, and one of the pioneers of the … in the HUC campus in New York. He cooperated with a lot of Jewish musicians; His best-known cooperation was with Rabbie … David. Jewhooing the sixties American celebrity & Jewish identity : Sandy Koufax, Lenny Bruce, Bob Dylan, and Barbra …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… , Idelsohn projected into this text his own vision of Jewish history and destiny as well as his take on prophecy … Turgeman A sad rumor arrived that the founder of the Jewish theater in Yiddish, Abraham Goldfaden has died. And … circumstances as well as of the conundrum of modern Jewish identity. The internal politics of the Russian Empire …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… There are scholars of Jewish and Israeli culture whose crucial contributions … the oral testimonies of veterans of the Yishuv (the Jewish community of Palestine prior to the establishment of … national feature. Hacohen focused on uncovering the identity of the concealed authors and sources of the Hebrew …
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 … Discographie Der Judaica-Aufnahmen . Bonn, 2006. The identity of the performers in these recordings remained …
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, … which played a central role in shaping his educational identity, also housed a synagogue, where a large choir …
1. Oh Lovely Parrot!
… but from the perspectives of literary content and community identity, the nine from Kochi and the two from Parur display … payinkiḷi —literally translated as a “green parrot,” and in Jewish Malayalam an epithet for a very beautiful woman— … and two others (songs 2 and 14) points to a tradition of Jewish roots in what is now the small town of Palayur, as …