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Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long … as elsewhere in the Arab world during the Nahda era, Jewish musicians played an active role in the performance … of self-reference, has the potential to counter Zionist nationalism and its inherent discrimination not only of …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to … the language of music, of new evolving aesthetic ideals, of Jewish public emotions, of cross-cultural intersections … music as a “universal” language against which other musical nationalisms in Europe defined themselves. Similarly, local …
The Idelsohn Project
… Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in the world is “Hava Nagila” (“Come, let us … Hassidic niggun) Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, was a European-born Jewish musician who insisted that music and affect were … undertone in our days? What is the link between music and nationalism in the modern Jewish imagination? … … These …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… , Idelsohn projected into this text his own vision of Jewish history and destiny as well as his take on prophecy … Turgeman A sad rumor arrived that the founder of the Jewish theater in Yiddish, Abraham Goldfaden has died. And … oscillating between “light” (ideals of territorial Jewish nationalism staged theatrically) and “darkness” (dull …