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Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s Legacy
… Development, which in many ways redefined the international study of music in Jewish life. Using that book as a … place Yemenite Jews held within Idelsohn’s philosophies of Hebrew culture and history. Finally, Judah Cohen will … and European models in the aesthetic development of modern Hebrew culture. This paper proposes to explore what …
Ashkenazic and Italian Liturgy
… interaction. Ruth HaCohen, Department of Musicology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ashkenazi Liturgical Music: … by the recently crystallized Minhag Ashkenaz. This examination will be juxtaposed to the permeation of foreign “harmonic” elements to cantorial music since early modern times, as manifest in Chazzanim’s notebooks and other …
Between Israeli and Jewish in Music
… the Jewish Ethiopian liturgy is still alive in modern-day Israel, as expressed in the construction of large … Israeli liturgy. Ronit Seter, Jewish Music Research Centre, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Is Israeli Art Music Jewish? … Their aim was to design contemporary Israeli music as a national project, not as a branch of Jewish music which was …
In Which Direction Do Hebrews Play Music?: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Musical Aesthetics of Zionism
… Zionism and the formation of Israeli culture. Scholars of Hebrew literature have focused particular attention on the … and European models in the aesthetic development of Modern Hebrew culture. This paper proposes to explore what … on my previous work on music, aesthetics, and Jewish nationalism in fin-de-siecle Eastern Europe, I will explore …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… poems written by the poets of the so-called ‘Golden Age’ of Hebrew poetry in Spain (10th to 13th centuries), and these … and, later, on radio and in films. The accessibility of the modern Arabic music spread by new media hastened its … including the Jerusalem Baqqashot, consists today of a combination of two musical strata: an ancient stratum, consisting …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… community ruled by rabbinical authority was shattered by modernizing trends characterized by an exposure to Western … French), to liberal trends in Judaism (especially to Jewish nationalism or Zionism) and to subversive political … called Maftirim performed its ancient repertoire of Ottoman Hebrew music on Sabbath mornings and afternoons at the …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… Shofet kol ha’aretz belongs to the medieval poetic Hebrew genre called pizmon that is characterized by a … of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts (hereby: IMHM) at the National Library of Israel, we can reconstruct with a … Of course his terminology is a bit uncomfortable to post-modern ears. Categories of authentic and ethnic musical …
Ner Haviv, Ner Na'eh
… a Hanukkah medley. The present recording was done at the National Sound Archives in Jerusalem in 1988, when Abuganim … can be now amended. The text was written by the Polish-born Hebrew poet and author Sh. Shalom (pseudonym of Shalom … redemption, a topic which has maintained relevant in the modern period, especially for compositions for festive …
Ahavat ‘Olamim
… Centre. It is the product of the initiative and imagination of composer and double bass player Omer Avital, and … and educator Yair Harel, Ahavat ‘olamim represents a modern journey into the depths of the Andalusian Jewish … … Jerusalem, Israel … Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem … Contemporary Jewish Music … …
Cute Boy, Charming Girl
… Cute Boy, Charming Girl: Children’s Songs of the Modern Hebrew Nation(1882-1948) presents Hebrew songs written for and sung …