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A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … far beyond this constricting narrative to recover Jewish culture, economics, politics, and society. Yet something of … Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern Jewish musical research. Idelsohn’s life traversed several …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one … sounded beautiful to me, loved singing and had a very good musical memory, excellent for remembering melodies that he … variant. Although, Libau was a modern city with German culture, my father picked for me a Lithuanian teacher in a …
Mapping of German Liturgical Music
… The Jewish Music Research Centre is proud to present a map of … sources of liturgical music form the German-speaking Jewish world. This map derives from the online data base … out in the framework of the project "German-Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections" funded by the German-Israeli …
Haim Louk
… at Em Habanim school in Casablanca, which integrated Jewish religious studies with general education, including … charismatic teacher who greatly influenced Louk's musical path. At the age of 10, Louk met Rabbi David … Israeli musicians. In 2011, he was awarded the Ministry of Culture's Prize for Music in recognition of his …