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Nili Belkind
… Dr. Nili Belkind is an ethnomusicologist whose specialty areas include the Middle East and the Caribbean. Her upcoming book Music in Conflict: Palestine, Israel and the Politics of … 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 joint … für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Germany) and the Jewish Music Research Centre (Hebrew University of …
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 … such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, …
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 source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… 49 … 58 … Jewish liturgy evolved in a multidirectional process. … verses from diverse psalms are a widespread phenomenon in Jewish liturgy, the text under discussion is unique in that … return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical performance of the three verses. The precious Leo …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… from archives around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which … for Performing Arts) conducted by Roumen Tsonev in the CD Jewish Songs from Bulgaria . The song itself starts at … York: Sepher-Hermon Press, 1987. Bunis, David. Voices from Jewish Salonika: Selections from the Judezmo Satirical …
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 … in Unger’s history: Unger decided to “devote his life to music making” after hearing Mahler’s Lied von der Erde ; he …
Dan Deutsch
… Deutsch is currently an Azrieli postdoctoral fellow in the Musicology Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. … Toronto Faculty of Music and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. His dissertation, Music as “Minor … against the backdrop of his social status as part of a Jewish minority. In his current research, he expands the …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … 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 …
David Conway
… Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College, and was a Polonsky Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies in 2019-20. His publications include Jewry in Music: Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to …