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Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked … and had also laid the foundation for what became known as modern Iraqi music. Most of these musicians moved to Israel …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… we are glad to launch the sixth volume in the Contemporary Jewish Music series, 13 Jewish Folk Tunes, an online … from 1924 shows Stutschewsky’s exposure to Central European modernism embedded within a Jewish multi-ethnic scene that …
Arabs - Jews - Music
… characterized it throughout history, with the rise of the modern national/ethno-religious conflicts in the Middle East … the fall of the Ottoman Empire and European colonialism. Music and music making was one area of cultural expression in which the Jewish-Arab encounter was intense. Shared musical spaces …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … … The paradigm consists of several elements. First, a modern conceptualization of an endangered “heritage” of solo …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… volunteer in Meseret , a center that supported traditional Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and music. The neighborhood had grown around an absorption … 11(2):161-173. Gilroy, Paul, 1993, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness . Cambridge, MA: Harvard …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… Beregovski, Evreiskie narodnye napevy bez slov [ Jewish Tunes without Words , 1946]: This research was … of its contents in the wider context of Hasidic music research is a desideratum. The present essay, focusing … nineteenth century, becoming an emblematic signifier of modern Israeli culture. As Mazor has shown in his …
Curt Sachs
… Born in Berlin, Sachs studied piano, music theory and composition as a youth in that city. He … musical instruments in 200 years. As one of the founders of modern organology (the study of the nature and history of … … American musicologist of German birth, founders of modern organology … Musicologist … German Jews … American … …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… the article “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the recordings … and Oriental pedigree and, to a certain measure, to modern colonial contexts, mostly French-Jewish. Yet, this …
Pete Sokolow
… roots in the Catskills span older and newer generations of Jewish musicians. Sokolow has played with many major figures in … Pete Sokolow , Northeastern University. Kalish Jon. In Modern Klezmer, 'The Oldest Old Guy' Is The King Of The …
Leó Weiner
… Leó Weiner was born in Budapest. He had his first music and piano lessons from his brother, and later studied … recordings and a correspondence with the World Center for Jewish Music in Palestine. Scores by Leó Weiner at the … Project (IMSLP) Frigyesi, Judit, ' Jews and Hungarians in Modern Hungarian Musical Culture ' In Ezra Mendelssohn ed., …