… Already at a young age Melamed showed interest in music. He used to visit the various synagogues in his area and listen to Jewish cantillation. After some time he began singing with … at last performed as a soloist. His father encouraged his musical interests, making him memorize the weekly Parasha. …

… ‘ud player, singer, conductor, and performer of Arab art music. He was student of Tanburi Ibrahim Bey in Iraq and was … listeners among Mizrahi communities (nearing 50% of the Jewish population), many leading composers listened to and … Achot Ketana  (אחות קטנה ראסט לחן: עזרא אהרון)   Articles: Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited …

… in various communities). Hassidic dance tunes have defined musical characteristics such as duple meter and fast tempi … generally have fixed texts which are performed mostly at weddings and at rejoicing festivals such as Simhat Torah and … of Hassidic music , p. 240; see also Moshe Beregovski, Jewish Instrumental Folk Music , 2001, no. 85, 102. [2]   …

… status it acquired exemplify the mechanisms through which Jewish modernity articulated itself on the basis of German aesthetics, in this case poetic and musical. Dort wo die Zeder also shows how the Zionist … speed with which Dort wo die Zeder spread throughout Jewish (and as we shall see also non-Jewish) spaces as an …

… Czech Republic) surrounded by a flourishing German-speaking Jewish community. Mahler's formal musical education began in 1875 at the Conservatory of Music in Vienna where he studied piano with teacher Julius …

… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … one of the most distinguished and long-standing Moroccan musicians in Israel. This short note prepared by JMRC … and died on April 30, 2020. He came, as do many Moroccan Jewish performing artists and composers, from a family of …

… see below. Although Idelsohn can be credited as the first musician to introduce this melody to the Zionist repertory … Basis — The Discovery of the Orient and the Uniformity of Jewish Musical Traditions in the Teaching of Abraham Zvi … of the Synagogue: An Historical Survey' in  Studies in Jewish Music: Collected Writings of Abraham Wolf Binder , …

… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … and saints, or Leidensgeschichte and Geistesgeschichte . Jewish Studies in this formulation consisted of the … in the Jewish past. A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern …

… known as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which originated among the Jewish communities scattered throughout the Ottoman Empire … th centuries and developed under Turkish-Ottoman and Arabic musical influences.   Contents The tradition of …  singing tradition found among the descendants of the Jewish communities exiled from Spain to the lands of Islam …

… 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared … the special favor of the Duke who allowed her, as the only Jewish pupil, to visit his German primary school. All her …