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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 …
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 … …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Moshe Cordova
… ma ka m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … Israeli Radio from the Ohel Moed synagogue, the central and modern Sephardic sanctuary in south Tel Aviv. Two …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… serve as hazzan (cantor) of the new, flourishing Portuguese Jewish community. In 1628, he published in his adopted city … adage became the opening line of one of the most popular modern Ladino songs, “Pesah a la mano,” authored by singer, … patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. Purim, Purim Lanu (Ladino …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … could speak”. This latter phrase Kaplan singles out as “modernism on the hoof: startlingly formal innovation … Song”. For a start, it represents two of the four genres (Jewish, Irish, Italian, and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take …