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Ben-Zion (Yisrael Noach) Kapov-Kagan
… whose name he would retain for the remainder of his life. In the United States, he served as hazzan at the Ocean Parkway Jewish Center in New York, and subsequently at the Concourse … He also served for a period of time as president of the Jewish Ministers and Cantors Association. Kapov-Kagan was …
Nili Belkind
… of the complex relations of musical production to political life in the context of the conflict. The book is an … the conflict and binary perceptions of Arab/Palestinian and Jewish/Israeli. Nili’s M.A. thesis focused on the musics of …
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 … of Israel. Beyond her local foci of research and public life concerns in Israel, Gerson-Kiwi is a very significant …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… for the Ninth of Av among the Sephardic and Oriental Jewish communities. The identity of the author is unknown, … Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim Beinart on the … traditions in Israel. Professor Edith Gerson Kiwi, whose life and work are the subject of a major research project of …
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 … disclosing Karnes’s intimate familiarity with Melngailis’s life work. The survey also includes a brief general history …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Forgotten Conductor: Heinz Unger and His Search for Jewish Meaning, 1895−1965 . Toronto: University of Toronto … Forgotten Conductor: Heinz Unger and His Search for Jewish Meaning , 1895−1965 seems to question this … (5). And thus, it would seem that this chronicle of Unger’s life promulgates a non-identarian perception of Jewishness …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… Song”. For a start, it represents two of the four genres (Jewish, Irish, Italian, and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take … heart of what became Berlin’s true genius and of what was Jewish – or at least ‘Jew-ish’ – about Berlin’s life and achievements. Berlin transcended Abie by realizing …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… serve as hazzan (cantor) of the new, flourishing Portuguese Jewish community. In 1628, he published in his adopted city … early dissemination in Western Sephardic and North African Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew … Sephardic-American artist. Jagoda, slightly later in her life, became one of the most remarkable folk performers of …
Moshe Cordova
… ma ka m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our … early years there is meager. A turning point in his life was the move to Istanbul, together with many of the Edirne Jewish community, following the devastation of this city …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… In the framework of the JMRC project dedicated to the life and work of cellist, composer, researcher and pedagogue … we are glad to launch the sixth volume in the Contemporary Jewish Music series, 13 Jewish Folk Tunes, an online world-premiere recording of …