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Forever in Our House: The Meir Noy Yiddish Song Project
… newspapers, and more – a lifelong effort to preserve Jewish music and culture that began in his native Kolomyia, Galicia, before … (vol. 14). This project reflects years of archival and musical research, and incorporates manuscript scans, Yiddish …
My Path to Jewish Music
… of essays Mein Weg zur jüdischen Musik (My Path to Jewish Music), published in Vienna in 1935 by … journalistic writing formed a direct extension of his musical career at a crucial moment in his life. These essays … and were so thoroughly assimilated into their host cultures that they were unable to create music of a truly …
Edith Gerson-Kiwi in Tehran (1961): Documents from a Revealing Journey
… by the playlist Edith Gerson Kiwi’s Recordings of Musical Traditions from Iran . “Persia’s geographical … 1960s. Looking back at her first encounters with Persian Jewish musicians who immigrated to Israel in the late 1940s, … in particular those in countries of Persian and Arab culture, have adopted the melodic systems of dastgah and …
Rebecca Cypess
… at Yeshiva University. She is the author of Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment (2022), Curious and … Salons: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (2026), Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy: New Perspectives (2022), and …
"Evolution of Jewish Music": Discourse Communities and Narrative Construction in the Performance of Music History
… two of these spinoff videos, both titled “Evolution of Jewish Music.” The two videos studied here are by Benny … law with a high degree of engagement with the popular culture of the majority population. By analyzing these … videos, I hope to reflect on the presentation of the Jewish musical past. I argue that presentations of the musical past …
Pre-Mediation and the Crisis of Experiential Memorialization: Listening to the Nova Exhibition
… had taken place was filtered through the feed of platform culture. In the days and weeks that followed, these same … 2019; Sterne and De Luca 2019). Amy Wlodarski’s notion of “musical witness” foregrounds music as testimony, … linkage, situating Nova within a broader arc of Jewish suffering and resilience. For others—particularly …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… this episode played in medieval and early modern Ashkenazi Jewish culture reveals that, alongside a vast literary corpus in Hebrew and in Yiddish, there is a musical expression firmly entrenched with texts addressing …
Had Gadya: Musical Traditions
… Haggadah, has generated a remarkably rich and varied musical tradition. Over the centuries, the song has been … musical languages, aesthetics, and performance contexts of Jewish communities across the diaspora. From early … on our website "The Song of the Month: Had Gadya in Israeli Culture" . … Pesach … Hagada … Jewish musical tradition … …
Ezra Aharon (“Azuri”): A Letter from David Avisar to the board of the Association for the Hebrew Oriental Song
… sector to ensure a balanced representation of diverse Jewish musical traditions in the incipient Hebrew mass media of … struggle for the equal representation of mizrahi Jewish culture in the emerging national arena. Notice also Avisar …
Ashkenazi Liturgy Studies
… Eastern Ashkenazi liturgies. Resources Articles: German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections Revisiting a Forgotten Treasure in … between liturgical and domestic soundspheres in Ashkenazi culture Atah Ehad … Ashkenazi people … Ashkenazi … Ashkenazi …
The Musical Events of the 19th World Congress of Jewish Studies
… The musical program of the 19th World Congress of Jewish Studies … experienced the enduring power of music in Jewish history, culture, and contemporary life. More photos from the musical …
Ury Eppstein
… Eppstein, one of the earlier scholars associated with the Jewish Music Research Centre and its academic secretary (ca. … went to Japan on a government scholarship to study Japanese culture, specializing in Japanese music at the Tokyo … dedicating efforts to the preservation of these Christian musical traditions within the framework of the JMRC, …


