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Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… briefly discusses the precarious position of German-Jews in the context of Canadian Jewry in general, yet he … because it expresses the cultural reality experienced by Jews in this period and functioned as “a form and … becomes a site of Jewishness because it was performed by Jews such as Unger, and Unger performed his Jewishness …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… the show on the ground that there were already too many Jews involved in it. We are told that the Jewish moguls of … throughout his career, were also ethnic (if not religious) Jews. A book in such a series might be reasonably expected …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… in “Imrei no’am,” recounts the injunction imposed on the Jews of Persia and their salvation by Esther and Mordecai, … Rosa Zaragoza recorded the song as “traditional among the Jews of Turkey. ' From the marketing strategy of the song by …
Moshe Cordova
… Europeans) since at least the late 1910s. It was founded by Jews of Italian origin who had broken away from the main … di Constantinopoli (Community of Foreign Jews of the Spanish-Portuguese Rite of Istanbul). Their … city of Tel Aviv, joining a movement of other Ottoman Jews from Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria. For Cordova, …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity . New York: Routledge, 2017. In Jews and Jazz , Charles Hersch has written an informative and penetrating history of Jews in American jazz music, which should become a first …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… Ballads, Wedding Songs, and Piyyutim of the Sephardic Jews of Tetuan and Tangier, Morocco (1983). Alicia’s adult … in Israel, after fleeing the challenging environment for Jews that had developed in Morocco since the end of the … to the songs, stories, customs, and rituals of the Jews of Tetuan, such as Pinto-Abecasis (2014), and Pimienta …
Arabs - Jews - Music
… East, North Africa and Spain, the vast majority of the Jews of Antiquity found themselves living in lands where … and language predominated over all local traditions. Jews of these lands absorbed, integrated with and … was intense. Shared musical spaces between Arabs and Jews is becoming a subject of growing interest in diverse …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… without Words , 1946]: Nign No. 3 … Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913): Annotations …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… public emotions, of cross-cultural intersections between Jews with the surrounding Christian society, and of marking … as the “religion of art music” and the growing roles of Jews as composers, performers, and audiences in the wider … Our approach attempts to release the music created by Jews and Jewish communities from a provincial status and to …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… during Operation Moses of 1984-5, when over 6,000 Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel) were airlifted from refugee camps in … Beta Israel were marginalized and oftentimes persecuted as Jews, in Israel their Jewishness came under the scrutiny of … by finding ways to facilitate the assimilation of Ethiopian Jews into hegemonic Jewish Israeliness. Studying secular …