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Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s Legacy
… Idelsohn’s Legacy: Eighty Years after the Publication of Jewish Music in its Historical Development The year 2009 … the publication of Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s foundational book Jewish Music in its Historical Development, which in many … ways redefined the international study of music in Jewish life. Using that book as a centerpiece, the three presenters …
Bloch: Known and Unknown
… relationship to Wagner, in that his expression of the ‘Jewish soul’ and use of Jewish traditional elements, both refutes Wagner’s denial of … it and was it shared by critics and interpreters in Bloch’s lifetime and subsequently? To what extent did they consider …
Jewish Identities and Ideologies in Music
… Jewish Identities and Ideologies in Music Chair: Boaz Tarsi … on a mission to rediscover the authentic sources of Jewish song. On this basis, he believed, Jewish song could … the unrelenting pressure brought on the Levis, in everyday life, to save their souls by converting to Christianity. …
Judeo-Spanish Traditions in Transition
… Program) Chair: Karen Gerson Sarhon Susana Weich-Shahak, Jewish Music Research Centre, Hebrew University of Jerusalem … their access to the internet, and there is a state-run Jewish museum in Belmonte. As they interact much more with … or former Crypto-now-open Jews, and how their musical life does and does not conform to often romantic notions …
Evoking a Corner of Jewish Life: Moses Milner’s “In Kheyder” for Voice and Piano
… Ontario … … 2 … 2009 … Samuel Zerin … Evoking a Corner of Jewish Life: Moses Milner’s “In Kheyder” for Voice and Piano …
Hamenagen Hamufla
… English title: The Amazing musician- The Life of Joseph Michael Gosikow . … 57 … 1 … Tel Aviv … …
Diwan
… Sabbath and festivals, and for celebrations of the cycle of life, such as weddings and circumcisions. All the sacred … written by Sephardi authors. When the poems of the great Jewish-Yemenite poet Shalem Shabazi began to appear, these …
Mitsve Tants
… to eastern Europe in the 18th century at the latest. In Jewish musar literature and minhagim books of the 17th and … texts symbolize the wedding as the Day of Judgment in the life of the couple. See also Mitsve-Tants in the Lexicon …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish communities. It consists of gatherings that occur … the court music of the Ottoman Empire during the author’s lifetime. Moreover, the lehanim (plural of lahan, tune or … which up to then had been predominant in the Sephardi Jewish liturgy and piyyut singing in the Middle East, went …
Hasidism
… grew out the desire to replace the overly academic model of Jewish observance with a focus on prayer, spirituality and … a central gathering place for the community where holidays, life-cycle events and communal celebrations are held. One of …