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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Avraham Soltes
… in all shapes and forms. Even as a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College (now HUC-JIR), this last interest … Jewish art, music, and literature. He was chairman of the National Jewish Music Council from 1963 to 1969 and a member … major work on Jewish Music, Off the Willows: The Rebirth of Modern Jewish Music. board of the National Jewish Book …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… (now Mysłowice, Poland), Geshuri (a name derived from the Hebrew for “bridge,” an equivalent of the German “Bruck”) … frontier with Belarus, and his exposure to the Haskalah and modern German culture that spread to the new Jewish … author of Haskalah books that served as a bridge to the new national-Zionist period. (Geshuri, 1970, part 1, 1) Geshuri …
Joseph Achron
… best marked by one of his earliest and most famous works, A Hebrew Melody (1911). In 1913 he moved to Russia to take a … him in his obituary as: “one of the most under-estimated modern composers; the originality and profound elaboration … attempts were entirely affected by the same paradigm of national musical style, which half a century ago had …