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The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… prior to the “immigration of Jews from Ashkenaz to Poland in the sixteenth century,” is precarious. …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Israel, Gerson-Kiwi outlined a picture of a Jewish academic landscape in Palestine / Israel that was characterized by great heterogeneity. The old/new land appears as a meeting place of diverse, sometimes …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… spoken by Jews throughout the Baltic provinces” and in Kurland (Courland, the part of Latvia where many Jews lived) “the … 1996). Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, himself born and raised in Kurland, included in his publications many songs he knew …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… resemble those of “Cum essem parvulus,” a motet by Orlande de Lassus. In addition, Jacobson even suggests that …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… yarem, amán. The song is found among Sephardim from the Island of Rhodes. Two versions from Rhodes are a written …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… career started to falter. In this local, Unger could not land any substantial position and was therefore impelled to …
Dan Deutsch
… in the long nineteenth-century. Photo credit: Shauli Landner … Musicologist and Music theorist … Dan Deutsch …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… and a journalistic rehash of the legends by Michael Freedland (1974) the songwriter’s major biographies had to wait … is an issue which Kaplan does not investigate, and indeed blandly sidesteps, in his enthusiasm for his subject. At his … He married a Catholic and brought up his children in a blandly Christian tradition. A clear hint is that virtually …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… attribution to its author have ranged from the New England Conservatory in Boston to a singer in from Venezuela , …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… in the early 1950s, part of the Jewish exodus from Arab lands, which had become largely inhospitable to Jewish …