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Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
Introduction
Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other…
Bernardo Feuer
Bernardo Feuer was born on May 1st, 1910 in Lemberg [Lviv], a city then part of the…
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac,…
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
On March 15, 1899, the distinguished scholar, cantor, composer and avid manuscript…
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
Introduction
It is November 15, 2016 and I am sitting in a car, driving on a mountain…
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
“From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith…
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music (minhag…
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
I spent the summer of 1989 living in a Nazareth Illit (today Nof HaGalil) neighborhood…
A Recovered Voice from the Past
Preface
The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German…