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Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s Legacy
… Idelsohn’s Legacy: Eighty Years after the Publication of Jewish Music in its Historical Development The year 2009 … the publication of Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s foundational book Jewish Music in its Historical Development, which in many … on my previous work on music, aesthetics, and Jewish nationalism in fin-de-siecle Eastern Europe, I will explore …
Joseph Achron (On His 50th Birthday) (1936)
… Article written in Jerusalem Describes the origin of Jewish musical nationalism, the international emigration of Russian-Jewish composers, and praises individual works by Achron. … …
In Which Direction Do Hebrews Play Music?: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Musical Aesthetics of Zionism
… The Fifteenth World Congress Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Special panel (Plenary of … Languages and Arts Section) In collaboration with the Jewish Music Forum, USA Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s … on my previous work on music, aesthetics, and Jewish nationalism in fin-de-siecle Eastern Europe, I will explore …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old traditional Ottoman Jewish community ruled by rabbinical authority was shattered … French), to liberal trends in Judaism (especially to Jewish nationalism or Zionism) and to subversive political …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… status it acquired exemplify the mechanisms through which Jewish modernity articulated itself on the basis of German … speed with which Dort wo die Zeder spread throughout Jewish (and as we shall see also non-Jewish) spaces as an … Zion … Imber, Naftali Herz … Jewish folksong … Jewish nationalism … Loewe, Heinrich … Pompiansky, A. A. … Rev. M. …
The Israeli Mediterranean Style
… versions of European Mediterranean styles in art music that Jewish composers—the founders of Israeli music, among them … a collection of styles imagined and constructed to convey nationalism in music during the pre-statehood decade. During … rhythmic, and structural elements in his music. Leading Jewish composers of the time, almost all raised and educated …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, the composer Solomon Rosowsky published a … days a half century earlier: [1] “Why are there so many Jewish students at the St. Petersburg Conservatory? Because … antisemitism. It was a proud form of Jewish cultural nationalism, a story of Jewish self-assertion. [6] But the …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… known as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which originated among the Jewish communities scattered throughout the Ottoman Empire … singing tradition found among the descendants of the Jewish communities exiled from Spain to the lands of Islam … of Arabic music was connected to the development of Arabic nationalism in the Middle-East in the 19 th and early 20 th …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its practice at ceremonies of Jewish institutions, synagogues, schools and youth … that it could become such a powerful emblem of nationalism.” [26] Bohlman suggests then that precisely the …
Assaf Shelleg
… Schusterman Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology and Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at … previously taught as the visiting Efroymson Scholar in the Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures … romanticist nationalism amid the dissemination of modernist …