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Music, Muslims and Jews
… of Islam and the expanding Arab conquests throughout the Middle East, North Africa and Spain, the vast majority of the Jews … the end of European colonial rule in North Africa and the Middle East. The relocation of almost all Jews from Arab …
Moshe Cordova
… Kal de los Francos (Synagogue of the Europeans) since at least the late 1910s. It was founded by Jews of Italian … Shirei Israel be-Eretz Haqedem “Songs of Israel in the East,” together with Binyamin Bekhar Yossef (z”l) and Bekhor … Jews in Israel, the predominance of Arabic music styles (Middle Eastern or Maghrebi ones) in Sephardic synagogues …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… as “during the High Holy Days, leading a choir in a Lower East Side Temple. Oh, and he took along his youngest son who … 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 …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… song included in the new publication of the JMRC, Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs from the EMI … Sephardim … Judeo-Spanish Songs … Rhodes … Wedding … Boda … Eastern Sephardi … La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… led Jacobson to his conclusion that Rossi knew at least one “real” Jewish (oral) melody. To make his case, … Harrán (ed.), Salamone Rossi – Opera Omnia , 13 vols. Middleton: American Institute of …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the … a brief general history of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of the cultural life of Jews in Latvia, … language of culture and commerce had been German since the Middle Ages for Jews and non-Jews alike,” while “in the …
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 by … of “Boreh ‘ad ana” made by a cantor who hailed from east of Aleppo, the great city in Syria. “Bore ‘ad ana” is …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… developing a focus on the Jewish musical practices in the Middle East. Significantly, she was also active in the promotion of … a woman and a scientist in a patriarchal society in the Middle East, an intellectual interfacing between multiple …
Nili Belkind
… (2014) and is an ethnomusicologist specializing in the Middle East—with a special focus on Palestine/Israel— and the … … Ethnomusicologist, mainly in the field of music of the Middle East and the Caribbean … Nili Belkind …
Clara Wenz
… Clara Wenz is an ethnomusicologist specializing in Middle Eastern music, music and sound studies, political … of religion and relationships between Europe and the Middle East. Her current research project chronicles the …