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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 … social status as part of a Jewish minority. In his current research, he expands the scope of his dissertation by …
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 … in our new production shows the extent to which detailed research complicates the paths of transmission of the songs …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… 49 … 58 … 710 … Jewish liturgy evolved in a multidirectional process. … return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical performance of the three verses. The precious Leo … 9, 1970 (NLI Y 0278) Much remains to be refined in our research of the liturgical insertion “Elohim hashivenu.” The …
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 … a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … 1906; Idelsohn 1932, xviii, fn. 1), which he most likely researched for sources of Yiddish songs (but to no avail). …
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, … such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … Gerson Kiwi, whose life and work are the subject of a major research project of the JMRC, met Nehemiah Hocha in …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in Berlin, … between 1936 and 1939. This association reoriented her research focus from the canon of Western art music to … para-liturgical and non-religious music of the non-European Jewish communities whose members relocated to Israel after …
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 … of our poem, Shlomo Ibn Gabirol (ca. 1020-1058). Recent research has shown that these historical certainties have to …
Clara Wenz
… Clara Wenz is an ethnomusicologist specializing in Middle Eastern music, music and … between Europe and the Middle East. Her current research project chronicles the present and past lives of a Syrian-Jewish musical record which was released by the Lebanese …
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 …
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 … of the Lebanese Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research (AMAR). Located in the little mountain village … made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long …