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A Jewish Sufi on the Influence of Music
… of specialized compositions by Jewish authors during the mediaeval period on the subject of music, a fair deal of …

Notes on Bukharan Music in Israel
… who have remarked that 'basic research ... should begin immediately, before the loss of those few who still remember …

Collectanea Concerning Music in the Hebrew Manuscript London, British Library, Or. 10878 (Hebrew)
… sciences. This is probably the earliest mention of music in mediaeval Judeo-Arabic literature dealing with the … philosophers on music' similar to those found elsewhere in mediaeval Judeo-Arabic literature (cf. RISM, B IX2, text no. …

Sounds from the Divine: Religious Musical Instruments in the Ancient Near East
… beings, gods as well as demons and other creatures of intermediate worlds. Besides its function as a conveyer of …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac,…
Moshe Attias
… at his court in the Negev town of Netivot. Mwijo couldn’t immediately make the journey from his home in Kiryat Ata, but … jail] and Messiah will come.” It is no wonder then that, immediately after Mwijo’s passing, Deri immediately released the following tribute: “[Mwijo] recruited …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… Agents In conceptualizing how this new biography is mediated by the interplay of human and non-human actors, … of different material and non-material, human and non-human mediators, namely, sound, voice, instruments, devices, … and Andrew Barry write, “identifying music’s constitutive mediations yields a more complex and distributed object (an …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… history, comparative musicology and Jewish music, and a mediator between German culture and scholarship and the … with German and Swiss colleagues: namely, the mediation of the idea of a new, post-war Europe, whose …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… whose actions, demeanors, and dispositions weaves a web of mediators and contiguities. Untangling the knots of that web … whose actions, demeanors, and dispositions weaves a web of mediators and contiguities. Untangling the knots of that web …
David Conway
David Conway is an Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish…