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Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… of what was Jewish – or at least ‘Jew-ish’ – about Berlin’s life and achievements. Berlin transcended Abie by realizing … of Jewish figures upon [inter alia] … cultural and economic life and the arts and sciences … deeply informed books that … or nothing to him; we have no evidence that he ever in his life even stepped inside a synagogue. He married a Catholic …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… (5). And thus, it would seem that this chronicle of Unger’s life promulgates a non-identarian perception of Jewishness … or not, Unger did not gain international fame during his lifetime. Shortly after his career took off, he was forced … but also by the fact that he hardly recorded during his lifetime. According to Tesler-Mabé, neglecting Unger’s …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… disclosing Karnes’s intimate familiarity with Melngailis’s life work. The survey also includes a brief general history … song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of the cultural life of Jews in Latvia, with emphasis on their musical … that provide glimpses into public and private musical life . . . tell different stories” (p. xix). Yet as far as …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… traditions in Israel. Professor Edith Gerson Kiwi, whose life and work are the subject of a major research project of …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… of Israel. Beyond her local foci of research and public life concerns in Israel, Gerson-Kiwi is a very significant … into consideration the socio-historical context of her life-achievements: a woman and a scientist in a patriarchal … a critical appreciation and scholarly analysis of her life and work, including her prolific and substantial …
Nili Belkind
… the complex relationship of musical culture to political life in Palestine-Israel. In the context of the geography of …
Ben-Zion (Yisrael Noach) Kapov-Kagan
… whose name he would retain for the remainder of his life. In the United States, he served as hazzan at the Ocean …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… and Torah scholar from Aleppo. [4] Over the course of his life, he, who was blind and relied on a scribe to record his … “What are the recognised ‘ages’ or periods in the thing’s ‘life,’ and what are the cultural markers for them?” … pioneer of the musical Nahda, spent over two years of his life in Aleppo (al-Hefny 1974); the Aleppian composer, nay …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… on the biblical and post-biblical legends pertaining to his life, including the Exodus from Egypt, the receiving of the …
Moshe Attias
… version of Elmediouni’s hit “ Ana Nahibak ”) or his lifetime partner on the stage, the ‘oud player Nino Bitton, who later in his life become a “guru” for young musicians interested in …