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Bertha Kalish
Yiddish theater and Broadway actress Bertha Kalish was born in Lemberg (present day Lviv…
‘I’m Sorry, It’s Yom Kippur’: Atonement through Punk (and Traditional Jewish Music)
… Dreams . New York: Carroll & Graf. A novel about Max, a middle aged Jewish transgender person living in New York …
Armand Sabah
… of Jerusalem, pursuing a B.A. in sociology and Islamic and Middle Eastern studies. During this period, he played …
Marcus Hast
… this nature, however.) There is a nice portrait of Hast in middle age in the section on the Great Synagogue in Peter …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… the whole piece. This rhythmic-melodic peak appears in the middle of the third section out of four, creating a sort of … such as Beimel and Nadel, arranged and published in the pages of his journal. Winz's source for this nign is yet … best conjectural. The following cases show additional lineages in transmission of this nign in other Hasidic …
Hay ram galeh
… has characterized the composition of new piyyutim in the Middle East for many centuries. The zenith of this practice … style. This style merges diverse Jewish practices from the Middle East, such as the urban Turkish-Ottoman style that … H ay ram galeh represents a late stage in the rooted Middle Eastern Sephardic tradition of turning secular Arabic …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… the order of qinot of some Sephardic communities in the Middle East, such as Turkey, Syria and Jerusalem, as shown … Avot Synagogue in Jerusalem. He sang in a variety of languages and styles, sacred and secular in Neo-Aramaic (the …
David Menahem
… is presently active in promoting the world of Piyyut and Middle Eastern music in Israel. He takes part in the …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… customary in Spain and in the Land of Israel during the Middle-Ages. It may be assumed that the Baqqashot as we know them … is the result of developments in the musical culture of the Middle East in general, and in Jerusalem in particular over …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… in his enthusiasm for his subject. At his outset, three pages of his preface are given to an exordium of the words … America, but individuals generally walk placidly down the middle of avenue of human experience within the limits sanctified by mid-twentieth century middle USA. Philip Roth, in his Operation Shylock , points …