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Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of Moroccan Jewish folk singer Alicia (Benassayag) Bendayan on Friday, … her 99th birthday on June 29. Throughout Alicia’s long life, she treasured within her memory the Judeo-Spanish …
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? … and Shaw perhaps only marginally so. Later in his life Smith would serve as cantor in a Black Jewish synagogue …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… para-liturgical and non-religious music of the non-European Jewish communities whose members relocated to Israel after … to the preservation and research of these distinctive Jewish musical repertoires. Her activities led to the … of Israel. Beyond her local foci of research and public life concerns in Israel, Gerson-Kiwi is a very significant …