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Meir Shimon Geshuri
… 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … as a scholar is still a major gap in the historiography of Jewish music. Born in Myslowitz, Upper Silesia, then part of … was concealed in a massive array of texts and musical practices that until his time, he claimed, were studied in a …
Mordekhai Hershman
… in New York City at Tomashevsky’s Theatre appeared in The Jewish Daily News of February 20, 1920. The enthusiastic … by Tchaikovsky.” Echoes of his appearances dotted the Jewish press that did not spare any superlatives. On … porous line separating secular from the religious musical practices led by great cantors of the time such as Hershman. …
Eduard Birnbaum
… to document the liturgical and para-liturgical musical practices of the major European Jewish communities. To supplement the material that he … collection … Hebrew Union College … Cantor … Collector … Jewish Liturgy … Eduard Birnbaum …
Andre Hajdu
… 5 March 1932 to a characteristically assimilated Hungarian-Jewish family and having survived the Holocaust (a subject … immersed himself in Judaism and started to observe Jewish religious practices. At the same time, he mingled in Paris’ …
Robert Lachmann
… to North Africa , recording and documenting the musical practices of communities in Tripoli , Tunisia , Kabylia, the … and paraliturgical musical traditions of the local Jewish community, material that served as the base for his seminal work, Jewish Cantillation and Song in the Isle of Djerba (1940). …
Amalia Kedem
… with her field-work based research on contemporary practices of cantillation (MA) and liturgical music (PhD) … they express Israeli and Ashkenazi identity. She taught Jewish music at the Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem, the Open University and Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, and lectures on liturgical music in various …
Musical Life and Traditions of the Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam in the XVIIIth Century
… the existing literary evidence related to the art music practices of the Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam in the 18th century. It … Adler … Musical Life and Traditions of the Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam in the XVIIIth Century … …
The practice of music as an expression of religious philosophy among the East-Ashkenazi Jews
… Special issue on Jewish music Establishing a conceptual framework for the … documents coming from the sacred written sources and from practices observed and opinions gathered over 20 years of …
Judeo-Caribbean Currents
… a multilayered musical narrative. The small but prominent Jewish community of Curaçao had a notorious role in the … with many of the most distinguished local musicians, Jewish and non-Jewish, serving as performers and providing … collection and they represent the more recent musical practices of the unified synagogue, Mikvé Israel-Emanuel. …
Between Israeli and Jewish in Music
… Between Israeli and Jewish in Music Chair: Jehoash Hirshberg Olivier Tourny, … Over the past two decades, the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jewish) Community has immigrated massively to Israel. It is … Another part chose to remain faithful to the ritual practices of its ancestors. That is why, contrary to all …