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Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov, a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked … an eminent scholar of music in the Islamic world and of the Jewish musical traditions within it. Warkov wanted to study …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness through music challenged the normative status of …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … one of the most distinguished and long-standing Moroccan musicians in Israel. This short note prepared by JMRC … and died on April 30, 2020. He came, as do many Moroccan Jewish performing artists and composers, from a family of …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… in sections according to the different Turkish makam s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem … to makam Rast places this version in the realm of Turkish music. Secondly, the title clearly delineates its … connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common source, … proposed that musical diversity is the natural state of Jewish culture. Lidarti’s setting was a case exemplifying …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … 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 …
Stefanie Mockert
… Mockert, who graduated in Musicology from Humboldt University, Berlin, is a researcher at the Hebrew University's Jewish Music Research Centré. Her studies focus on the … the joined research projects with the European Center for Jewish Music, Hanover: “ From Berlin to Jerusalem and back - …
Clara Wenz
… Clara Wenz is an ethnomusicologist specializing in Middle Eastern music, music and … project chronicles the present and past lives of a Syrian-Jewish musical record which was released by the Lebanese … Academic Foundation), 2016-2019 Mildred Loss Studentship, Jewish Music Institute (JMI), SOAS, 2015-2019 Employment …
Ben-Zion (Yisrael Noach) Kapov-Kagan
… 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 … … Hazzan … Chazzan … Odessa … Cantor … Composer … Synagogue music … New York … Ben-Zion (Yisrael Noach) Kapov-Kagan …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new … in Hebrew) for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, a fast day in Jewish tradition marking the breach of Jerusalem’s … this date was associated with other catastrophes in Jewish history. In spite of its prominence in Jewish …